The three-story stone building is made of red ceramic bricks, with plastered and painted walls in a gray-green color. The main facade, located at 45 Sovetskaya Street, is designed in the traditions of neoclassicism and features strict symmetry. The central part of the facade is divided into five vertical axes. The central risalit has a grand character, with the main entrance at the center of the facade. The entrance portal is designed as a protruding triumphal arch with a triangular pediment, an entablature with decorative metopes and triglyphs. The columns of the Doric order on a high pedestal evoke ancient Roman architecture. The building stands on a high plinth.

The windows are adorned with framed decor, and above them in the risalit are two rows of teeth. The corners of the central risalit are highlighted by protruding pilasters with pediments, which emerge from the crowning cornice with a belt of crackers and brackets.

The history of the building begins after the major July fire of 1906, when the city council decided to build a new women's gymnasium on Bolshaya Street (now Sovetskaya). At the request of the council and the gymnasium's board of trustees, architect Maksimov from the Ministry of Public Education developed sketch designs. The project was approved by the construction committee of the ministry, and in 1913, permission for construction was obtained. An interest-free loan from the government allowed contracts for the supply of building materials to be signed with contractors from Syzran, Penza, Odessa, Kazan, and Samara in 1913. The construction was overseen by city architect S.P. Shcherbakov, and by September 1914, the gymnasium building was completed.

After the revolution, the first women's gymnasium building was municipalized and transferred to the city administration. It housed a second-level school of the district department of public education. In March 1919, the headquarters of the First Revolutionary Red Army was located in the building. In the 1920s, it housed a combined second-level school, an adult school, a pedagogical college, a pedagogical cabinet, and a museum of visual aids, as well as museums No. 1 and No. 2, a unified labor school named after Lenin, and second-level school No. 2. In the 1930s, it housed a medical college and a teacher training institute. During the Great Patriotic War, evacuation hospitals No. 1643 and No. 357 were located in the building. In the 1950s, it was a boarding school for children orphaned during the war. In 1960, the building was transferred to the general technical faculty of the Kuibyshev Industrial Institute. Since 1962, it has housed the Syzran branch of Samara State Technical University.