title: Kostin House
text: # Kostin House
  
  The Kostin House (Russian: Дом Костина, tr. Dom Kostina) is a building in the Kirovsky District of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. The house is located at 37 Chekhov Prospekt [ru] at the intersection of Chekhov Prospekt (formerly Maly Lane) and Suvorov Street (formerly Malaya Sadovaya Street). The Kostin House has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
  
  ## History
  
  The building was erected in the late 19th century as a revenue house. Its owners were the Rostov merchant Yefim Yakovlevich Kostin and his wife Domna Ivanovna Kostina. They also owned an oil mill [ru] in a building next to the Kostin House. By resolution № 411 of the Rostov Oblast Administration on 9 October 1998 the house was designated an object of cultural heritage of regional significance. In the 2000s the building was restored. The ground floor is currently occupied by shops and a restaurant.
  
  ## Description
  
  The Kostin House was built in the Russian Revival style. The facade is rusticated, and decorated with lesenes, horizontal cornices above rectangular windows and a blind arch above the only round window. A cornice above small corbels crowns the top of the building.
  
  