Officer House
   Photo: House Officers

In 1861, at the corner of Cathedral and gymnasium alley (now travel Kotovskogo), opposite the Park "sticky" merchant P.F.Tyulpin built two-storey house and handed it over to the Merchants' Club.

Merchants' Club, founded in 1859, initially consisted only of merchants, traders and industrialists, occupying a temporary space in the house Gotovitskogo. But over time the club started to come people engaged in other types of commercial and income-generating activities, as well as wealthy citizens, and in 1870 the club was renamed the Commercial Meeting. Every year the number of members of the Commercial congregation grew and the problem of lack of space became more urgent. In 1892, the meeting it was decided to buy back the house Tyulpina and build on the third floor, but it did not solve the whole problem, while in 1909 did not decide to make an addition to the design of the facade. For this he was invited Saratov M.G.Zatsepin architect and in 1914 expanded to a three-story building overlooking ennobled him before demanding owners.

The main facade of the building in three tiers decorated by iconic series. On the first floor there is a series of interlocking stones with leaves and lion mascarons, between the second and third floor - a series of medallions and wreaths, a little higher - a bas-relief on the theme of Bacchus festivities. Creation Zybina survived to this day in its original form (facade).

In 1918, the building was constructed in the People's House, which held political and social events. In 1932, the House passed the War Department, calling it first "House of the Red Army", and later - Garrison Officers' Club, which is located in the building and in our days.

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