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45 Lovely Spring Front Porch Decor Ideas

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Sarah Lyon is a freelance writer and home decor enthusiast, who enjoys sharing good finds on home items. Since 2018, she has contributed to a variety of lifestyle publications, including Apartment Therapy and Architectural Digest.

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Published on 04/04/22

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Spring is in the air, and that means one thing—front porch season is here! Decorating the porch or stoop is always an enjoyable way to usher in the arrival of warmer days. But if you're unsure where to begin when it comes to zhushing up your space, fear not—we've got you covered. Keep reading for 45 porch and stoop decoration ideas that will have you ready to embrace the spirit of the season.

25 Spring Front Porch Ideas: Bright and Refreshing Design

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Spring leads the way to warmer weather, beautiful blooms, and lots of sitting out on the porch listening to the birds! And it’s no surprise I love decorated spring front porches!

When you want your home to feel more welcoming, inviting and fresh, there’s no better spot to spruce up than the entry.

Spring updates to your front porch and outdoor living areas aren’t difficult either. All you need are a few cheery items to really brighten up the space.

So, get rid of the drab of winter by dressing up your porch with pretty plants, hanging baskets, a freshly painted chair, and other fun décor.

If you’re looking for beautiful spring front porch ideas, I’ve rounded up the best of the best I could find.

These cute spring front porch ideas provided me with plenty of inspiration to recreate the looks on my own porch. I’m sure you’ll find decorating ideas for your front entry too.

One thing is for sure: these 25 spring front porches and outdoor spaces really have me wishing we aren’t going to see any more cold days coming up! I’m ready for spring!

If all you have is steps leading up to your front door with a small stoop, create a formal look with a couple of pots with big greenery (like boxwoods or topiaries).

The big pots of greenery could last through several seasons.

Offset your big pots with a grouping of smaller ones to provide a pop of colorful spring flowers in sweet pastels like pink and yellow.

{ via Better Homes & Gardens }

I love the blue and white buffalo check used to frame the “Howdy” doormat, Heather used on her front porch! It is the perfect bright color for spring!

The blue and white checks are echoed in the ribbon on the all-green wreath with a sweet, simple bow.

The combination creates a friendly, inviting front door, which wouldn’t cost much to recreate.

{via Southern State of Mind}

Any guest would feel totally welcomed on this garden-friendly porch!

I really love the rain boots with fresh flower decorations in lieu of a wreath!

The watering can, and small pots of flowers create a sweet vignette offset with the darling bunting across the top of the door.

This is a great example of how your porch can really show off your personality–it’s clear this homeowner loves to garden!

{ Cottage in the Oaks }

I love iron pieces like this industrial style porch light on the wall.

The coral colored chair looks darling with the black and white numbered pillow, which calls back to the black design on the floor mat.

White flowers tie this whole, elegant front porch look together, especially with a pretty grapevine and floral wreath!

{ via Grandin Road }

A bright yellow floral wreath really says Welcome Spring!

The bright topiaries that flank the door and the beautiful urns are great spring front porch ideas because they will last season after season with a few color updates.

And the door with photos in the glass is such a great touch! What a unique and fun way to repurpose an item as front porch decor.

{via Down to Earth Style }

Freshen up your porch with farmhouse style touches and a beautiful painted door.

The sweet mint color on this door looks so delicious next to the pink flowers and buffalo checked pillow.

This front porch is proof you can work with a very simple color scheme – white, tan and black, and use a few bright touches to bring life and vibrancy to a front porch.

This southern porch was made for outdoor living–relaxing and enjoying conversation.

{ via Once Upon A 1912 }

Use the extended porch to create a seating spot with fun pops of blue.

The neutral black and white furniture, pots and touches on this porch work well with any accent color they’re paired with.

One universal truth about spring front porch ideas is they almost always incorporate bright, cheerful color into the design scheme. This seaside blue is elegant but very cheery!

{ via Citrine Living }

This is such a pretty sunny yellow color for the front door and adding flowers in the same color really help it stand out.

The antique urns look great with the little yellow pansies tucked in under the evergreens.

The wreath on the door and cute wooden mat (love the geometric pattern!) pick up the yellow theme once more without appearing overdone or fussy.

{ via Creatively Living }

I love the gorgeous shade of turquoise on this ceiling. It is so bright and fresh!

Blue ceilings are common on southern porches to echo the blue sky above.

This porch seems perfect for a mint julep or lemonade (which may be exactly what’s in the glass on the beautiful bright green table). 

The elegant white pots and white wicker furniture go with any pretty fresh flower, and the hydrangeas look especially stunning.

{ via Southern Living }

This makes me totally wish Spring was here now, this porch is gorgeous!

A tea cart is one of the cutest decorating ideas for housing a few porch-items and creating a great platform for additional decorations.

The twin white rocking chairs look great with the bright blue pillows and even though this porch is small, it really stands out!

{via Home Stories A to Z  }

The gorgeous shutters really set the stage for this beautiful spring front porch!

A simple arrangement of twin rocking chairs around a fern look like a great spot to spend a warm spring evening.

The porch swing caps the end making it a perfect outdoor living space with extra seating for lazy afternoon reading.

{ via Alexandra Rowley }

The modern garden stools on the steps of this front porch are so fun and unexpected!

The beach bag is a great alternative to a wreath or hanging baskets for spring front porches. So quirky and cute!

Despite this porch being small with a steep step, it looks wonderfully welcoming and cheerful.

{ via Nesting With Grace }

Huge planters to flank your front door are perfect for multiple potted plants like ferns, hydrangeas and sweet potato vines.

The pots are nestled right into the planters themselves, to be moved or switched out later, without needing to replant or disturb roots.

These planters pack a huge visual punch. With the great porch lights, this front porch needs little else to really stand out.

{via JLL Design }

This is such a fun way to add visual impact to your front porch! Paint on a stair runner!

This porch looks particularly great with the robin’s egg blue they’ve used to echo the color of the door as well as the southern porch ceiling.

Evergreen boxwoods and topiaries are gorgeous, and this is a porch that will look great year-round!

{via Megan Rice Yager }

I am IN. LOVE. with this porch! The fiddle leaf figs, the front door, the whole nine yards!

Using bright green moss in the base of the fig trees is such a great finishing touch.

The lime color picks up the bright lime green in the hydrangea pots and again on the wreath on the door.

Every piece goes together seamlessly, and the stunning industrial-style porch light crowns the perfect spring porch look.

{via Lavin Label  }

I adore this porch! It has such a sweet cottage look perfect for outdoor living.

The blue and white ceramics add the perfect touch of elegance. The bar cart with the copper bucket are ready for outdoor entertaining.

The bright cushions on the white wicker furniture are welcoming and the white table is begging for a round of tea and a game of cards while visiting with friends.

{via Leo Interiors via House of Turquoise }

Another common theme in many of these spring porch ideas is accenting the color of the door with porch accessories.

The pillows the beautiful porch swing and two wicker arm chairs, echo the trim on the windowpanes and soft mint color of the door.

With the brown wooden decking and urns, it really pops. A few bright pink and yellow flowers look sweet in this spring front porch color pallet.

{ via Artisan Signature Homes }

Spring flowers are a happy welcome to an all-white-exterior home.

Purple and yellow are complementary colors, so when they’re combined they have a big impact.

Porch swings always look great with a few neutral pillows. Terra cotta pots also act as a neutral background for the sunny flowers adorning this beautiful spring porch.

{ via Southern Living }

This porch looks so fresh and ready for spring with a yellow and green color combo!

The striped pillows on twin rocking chairs pick up the yellow tone from the hydrangea basket hanging on the door. Ferns are stunning additions to a porch too.

I love the basket filled with croquet mallets. Who could resist a spring game when they are right there ready to play?!

{via Country Living }

Start Spring off on the right foot with a big giant “hello!” It doesn’t get more welcoming than graphic designs like this.

The color combination of mint and red or mint and bright pink is such a winner too.

The sign and bench provide a perfect seating area and look so darling next to the urn of bright spring flowers. This spring porch is ready to welcome all who visit!

{via Start at Home Decor }

Create a statement with oversized urns for a wow factor.

Because pink is essentially “light red” it’s important to remember pink is complimentary with green. When you put the two colors together, especially like these Kelly Green Oriental urns, you really get a powerful look.

The flowers are truly stunning here.

{ via Frontgate }

I am into blues lately and this porch has such a cozy feel with a pretty rug and blue planters.

Even though this porch is small, it gives plenty of room to sit and relax with the two wooden rocking chairs.

The rug creates a seaside feel in the seating area and the turquoise and blue tones work so well together.

Note how cheerful the yellow flowers look against the turquoise pot!

{via The Hamby Home }

This door color is the perfect pop for spring!

Now, you may not want to paint your door every season, but when you have a bright, fun door or trim color, you can easily highlight it by choosing accents in a similar tone.

The lime green plants next to the door, really allow it to stay the central focus (but add life and cheer to this spring porch look).

{via Better Homes & Gardens }

I am in love with all those pink tulips and the sweet bunny statues on this spring front porch!

The little birds that adorn the cloche toppers on the urns are absolutely darling.

This porch looks like it is absolutely the essence of the spring season, doesn’t it?

Note the mat features hints of pink as well, which echo the flowers and the wreath.

The vines hanging down and the petals strewn along the path look like the perfect spot for those modern bunnies to frolic.

{ via Grandin Road }

We love how they pulled the color of the door into the urns.

It gives it a modern feel but against the white, it still looks bright and airy, not dark.

The industrial porch lights and raw wood in the ceiling are a great background for this beautiful front porch.

The flowers in shades of pink and white are really what keeps this porch looking romantic and sweet. Adding a few simple touches, get any porch ready for spring.

 

So, what do you think? Are you inspired by these fantastic spring front porch ideas?

I’ll bet these gorgeous front porches and outdoor spaces have you pining away for warmer weather. I know I am!

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The ten most unusual front doors in St. Petersburg - ADDRESSES

Only in St. Petersburg is the entrance called the front door, and sometimes it looks like a real work of art. "Sankt-Peterburg.ru" has collected the addresses of the most unusual of them.

The tenement house of the merchants Eliseevs on the embankment of the Fontanka River was the first large project of the architect Gavriil Baranovsky, it was completed in 1892. Subsequently, the architect became the main designer of the Eliseev merchant dynasty. The main staircase has retained luxurious stucco molding depicting women's faces and cones, symbols of fertility and immortality. Original balusters in the form of griffins have been preserved everywhere.

Window openings are decorated with stained-glass windows with round windows around the perimeter. In the glazing of the spacious windows of the flights of stairs, Baranovsky tested a new method, thanks to which, on rare sunny days, the front door is flooded with bright warm light. Multi-colored glass with a pattern is now left on the only window, which is often used in photo shoots. According to legend, there was also a stained-glass window in the center of the window, but it has not survived to this day.

Address: emb. Fontanka River, 64

Photo: Instagram / @vladislavkarpyuk

The house of the merchant Dekhterinsky is considered the most beautiful on Zagorodny Prospekt. The owner of a tool shop in Apraksin Dvor saved up for its construction all his life. The idea of ​​a tenement house in the eclectic style was brought to life in 1881–1882 by the architect Alexander Golm. Alexander Dekhterinsky managed to live in his own luxurious house for only three years, after which he died. On the landings in the front hall, old patterned tiles have been preserved, the walls and ceilings are decorated with stucco, arches, medallions with the letter "D" and niches. On the doors you can find Soviet mechanical locks, and on the stairwells - an additional door leading to a common restroom. During the filming of the film “Three Women of Dostoevsky”, a gas lamp appeared on the railing in the front of the house.

Address: Zagorodny avenue, 26 (entrance to the front door between the arch of the house and dentistry)

Photo: Instagram / @ikaterina_bart

The mansion of Privy Councilor Mikhail Ustinov on Mokhovaya Street attracts attention with its beautiful neo-baroque facade. The owner of the house rebuilt his old mansion in 1875-1876, the reconstruction project was created by the prominent architect Viktor Schreter. Right at the entrance you can see a chic patterned wooden ceiling and a massive intricate chandelier.

On the main staircase you can admire the wide light steps made of stone with platforms between the floors, which are decorated with sculptural little angels. Lanterns rise above the heads of the angels, and in front of them is a huge mirror on the floor. The top floor is decorated with a patterned glass ceiling. The building of the mansion is in excellent condition, even all the fireplaces here are still operating.

Address: Mokhovaya street, 3 (the Gosgortekhnadzor of Russia is located inside the mansion)

Photo: citywalls.ru

At the end of the 18th century, the architect Yevgeny Sokolov designed and built a three-story mansion on the embankment of the Griboyedov Canal. Outside, the house does not stand out much, but inside there is an unusual front staircase, surrounded by red walls on one side and black railings with gilded ornaments on lattices on the other. Since 2001, the house has been included in the list of city objects of cultural significance.

Address: emb. 105 Griboedova Canal

Photo: paradnye-peterburga.ru

The second profitable house of the Eliseev merchants is located on Lomonosov Street. It was built in 1891-1892 by the same architect, Gavriil Baranovsky. In the front of the house there is a massive stucco molding and beautiful decoration. The walls inside are painted yellow, a beautiful spiral staircase leads up, so the front door is popularly called "chamomile". Previously, the large windows that spiraled around the elevator had colored glass, and even in bad weather it was cozy here. Now the old yellow stained-glass windows are preserved only on the upper floors, and the balustrade is also preserved there.

Address: Lomonosova street, 14 (there are several hotels in the front door; to get inside, you just need to dial the number of any hotel on the intercom)

Photo: Instagram / @vladislavkarpyuk

The four-storey mansion of the banker Mauritius Stifter on Mokhovaya Street was built in 1913-1914 in the Art Nouveau style by the little-known but talented Polish architect Ludomir Chojnowski. Despite the revolution and the war, this beautiful building in the center of St. Petersburg has been very well preserved, and not only the facade has survived, but also a significant part of the original interiors.

Inside the mansion, a magnificent marble staircase with an exquisite lattice and an old elevator has been preserved. Halls and living rooms amaze with authentic chandeliers, marble fireplaces and other early 20th century decoration elements. Everywhere - in the design of the house and on the grate of the elevator - there is the monogram of the owner in the form of the letter "S".

Address: Mokhovaya street, 150003

Photo: olgitza2011.livejournal.com

Ivan Maltsev's apartment building in Baskovy Lane is going through hard times now. It was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the Russian architect Anatoly Kovsharov and is an architectural monument. Inside the old front door, a massive stone staircase has been preserved, which connects the six floors of the apartment building. The former beauty peels off the walls with matte paint, is visible in the dirty patterned stained-glass windows on the windows. The floors are decorated with statues of women, like Atlanteans, propping up a ceiling with stucco.

Address: per. Baskov, 41

Photo: citywalls.ru

Count Yelagin's tenement house on the Moika Embankment was built in the eclectic style by the architect Maximilian Messmacher at the end of the 19th century. The building housed the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of Arts. At the beginning of the 20th century, the great Russian artist Nicholas Roerich lived in the house on the second floor. The front door from the embankment has no free access and is a kind of secret place. Inside, you can see a bewitching spiral staircase that goes right under the glass dome of the building.

Address: emb. Reki Moika, 83 (accessible with a paid tour)

Photo: paradnye-peterburga.ru

The tenement house of Staff Captain Muyaki on the corner of Vosstaniya Street and Kovensky Lane is a vivid example of early St. Petersburg Art Nouveau. The house was built in 1902-1903 by the famous Russian architect Alexander Khrenov and is distinguished by its multicolored brick cladding, flowing rich molding and lacy metal decor. The staircase inside the front door is decorated in a very original way, and the round elevator shaft is installed not in the flight itself, but in the middle of the landings built in a round shape. Vintage forged elevator grilles hide a soft semicircular sofa inside.

Address: Vosstaniya street, 18 / Kovno per., 17 (there is a business center and company offices inside)

Photo: Instagram / @borisovat; citywalls.ru

The building of Rossiya Insurance Company on Bolshaya Morskaya Street was built at the beginning of the 20th century by architects Gimpel and Ilyashev. The first floor of the four was originally occupied by shops, the second and third - by the offices of the insurance company, the fourth - by apartments. Inside the main staircase there are beautiful spans decorated with stained-glass windows and maritime-themed stucco: Poseidon and waves in the windows, plaster frogs under the arches of the floors. The staircase itself is decorated with heavy forged railings with copper inserts.

Address: Bolshaya Morskaya street, 35 (the museum and exhibition center "Rosfoto" is located inside)

Photo: Instagram / @nifiga_ne_mban

20 The most beautiful entrances of the city, where you can get free and admire the pre-revolutionary style

Sergey Dragoon

Lives in St. Petersburg

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Family in Petersburg.

Once the entrances to the house were divided into the front exit to the street and back stairs for servants and household needs. Over time, any entrance in St. Petersburg began to be called the front door.

I walked around 30 entrances in St. Petersburg and chose the 20 most interesting ones. I’ll warn you right away that this is an incomplete list: there are much more front rooms with preserved historical interiors in the city. You can search for them by the #100front hashtag on Instagram.

Some entrances from the list are free to enter, while others can be entered with residents. Many doors have tight closers that do not close well and leave a gap in the opening.

Website "Front Petersburg"

In some front apartments, apartments may be numbered out of order, for example, 6, 11, 32, 64. A house may have two addresses - 2nd Sovetskaya Street, 10B and 3rd Sovetskaya Street, 9. I can imagine how hard it is to work as a postman in the center of St. Petersburg.

I'll tell you where to see the beautiful pre-revolutionary front doors in St. Petersburg. For convenience, I collected them on one map:

Kanshin's Mansion

Address: Kuznechny Lane, 6, the nearest metro station is Vladimirskaya
How to get there: entrance is free, there is no intercom, because there is a jazz school, a photo studio and other organizations in the front door
Style: eclectic
Year of construction: 1870

A bit of history. The house was built by the architect Gustav Barch for the farmer Vasily Kanshin - that was the name of tax collectors at that time. Kanshin gave the house to his daughter. After the revolution, communal apartments were arranged in the building.

What to look out for: rich moldings with caryatids and cupids. The building has an original facade and interior decor, which is well preserved.

The decoration of the front door looks more like a palace than an apartment building. True, the interior is spoiled by a modern plastic door that does not fit into the historical decoration. The stair railings do not match with the interior: they are made in the Art Nouveau style and have obviously been removed from another house.

An interesting fact. Aleksey Balabanov filmed the film "Happy Days" in this building.

Bernshtein apartment house

Address: 2nd Sovetskaya street, 10B / 3rd Sovetskaya street, 9, the nearest metro station is "Ploshad Vosstaniya"
How to get there: entrance is free, the front door is not locked
Style: modern
Year built: 1905

A bit of history. The house was built by the architect Alexander Khrenov. The building is located on a cross-cutting site, which at the beginning of the last century was owned by the director of the Stroitel joint-stock company Grigory Bernshtein.

Points to look out for: for small details that were used on the ground floor, such as white lilies and water lilies. The second and other floors are decorated more simply. Between them there are niches with benches - you can sit and relax.

Thanks to the use of ceramics, the entrance hall has been perfectly preserved. German tiles in decoration are typical, consumer goods of that time.

An interesting fact. Local historian and guide Fyodor Gribkov spoke in detail about the interiors of this house in his book “20 ​​Unique Front Doors of St. Petersburg. The era of modernity.

Weiner's apartment house

Address: Chaikovskogo street, 38, the nearest metro station is Chernyshevskaya
How to get there: there is no free access to the front door, you can only rely on luck
Style: eclectic
Built: 1892

A bit of history. The house was built by the architect Boris Girshovich for the Weiner family. Weiner Jr., publisher and art critic, lived here for 30 years. In Soviet times, the building had communal apartments and a kindergarten.

What to look for: wall and ceiling finishes. Entrance doors are original, like the doors of apartments, now it is a rarity. There are inscriptions from the 50s of the 20th century on the windowsill.

An interesting fact. This front door is one of the most beautiful and hard-to-reach in St. Petersburg. I was able to get inside only because the front door lock was frozen.

Profit House of Abaza

Address: Tchaikovsky Street 26, the nearest metro station - Chernyshevskaya
How to get: LOVE FREE, FIRE NOT CLOSE
Style: Neo -ORENSANCES
9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 A bit of history. Architect Vladimir Serkov built a house for a military historian, Major General Viktor Abaza. In the 1880s, Abaza wrote The History of Russia for the People. On the facade of the building there is the monogram of the owner - the head of an elk, crowned with a small female bust.

What to look for: for decoration - front door in very good condition. The walls are decorated with floral ornaments and figurines of playing boys - putti. The wrought iron railings of the stairs attract attention.

An interesting fact. Previously, the street where the house is located was called Sergievskaya. It was renamed in 1923 in memory of the composer: Pyotr Tchaikovsky lived in the 41st house on this street in 1852-1853 and studied at the Imperial School of Law, which was located on the corner of Fontanka and Sergievskaya.

Dobrodeeva Profitable House

Address: Kovensky lane, 14, the nearest metro stations are Chernyshevskaya and Vosstaniya Square
0219 Style: eclectic
Built: 1904

A bit of history. Architect Boris Kishkin built an apartment building for honorary citizen Sergei Dobrodeev. He lived here with his family. At the beginning of the 20th century, Dobrodeev was the director of the Oil Business partnership and the founder of the printing school of the Imperial Technical Society.

What to look for: on wall and ceiling stucco and on second entrance doors. The stucco consists of brackets, that is, ledges in the wall, which are decorated with flowers.

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The second entrance doors seem rough at first glance, but if you look at them, you can see fine woodwork. In general, the front door is in good condition, it was not spoiled by painting, as it happens. Only the light bulb at the entrance is knocked out of the general style - another lamp would be appropriate here.

An interesting fact. K-14 yard space operates on Kovnosky Lane, where film screenings, lectures and exhibitions are held.

House on Radishcheva Street

Address: Radishcheva Street, 24, Baskov Pereulok, 37/39A, the nearest metro stations are Chernyshevskaya and Vosstaniya Square
How to get there: there is no free access to the front door 9 : eclectic
Year of construction: unknown

What to look for: on the stucco on the walls and the oven. The front door is of a bright burgundy color - I have not come across this anywhere else. The interior is well preserved. The only depressing thing is the condition of the stove, on which the employees of the housing and communal services glue ads.

Profitable house Kryuchkov

Address: Lomonosov street, 18, the nearest metro stations are Vladimirskaya, Dostoevskaya
How to get there: there is no free access, but there is a kindergarten on the second floor, so people often enter and exit
Style: eclectic
Built: 1894

A bit of history. The house was built by the architect Alexander Khrenov. In 1905, the organization "The First All-Russian Union of Teachers and Figures for Public Education" was located here. In the Soviet years, a sewing and fur factory worked in the building.

What to look for: on the stucco under the ceiling - it is well preserved, like the original wooden doors. There is also a white stove and a green fireplace in the front door. The overall impression is spoiled by shabby walls: they were painted by vandals. The property is in need of renovation for a long time.

Profitable house of Eliseev

Address: Lomonosov street, 14, the nearest metro stations are "Vladimirskaya", "Dostoevskaya"
How to get there: entrance costs 130 R, you need to call the concierge and pay him
Style: eclectic
Built: 1892

A bit of history. Architect Gavriil Baranovsky built a house for Grigory Eliseev, the merchant's middle son. In the 1960s, there was an atelier here, and now, in addition to residential apartments, there is a hotel.

What to look for. People call this front door chamomile because of the combination of the yellow color of the walls and the white color of the dome rosette. It looks very cozy: the residents decorated the window sills with flowers and pulled armchairs and mirrors onto the landings.

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The most interesting thing in the main entrance is the spiral staircase located around the elevator shaft, it ends with a dome. The doors to the apartments are in good condition, but for some reason they are all different.

An interesting fact. The first steam elevator in St. Petersburg was installed in the entrance hall. It did not survive, but the mine remained.

Profitable house on Rubinshteina

Address: Rubinshteina street, 20, the nearest metro stations are "Vladimirskaya", "Dostoevskaya"
How to get there: admission is free, because there is a restaurant on the second floor
Style: not defined
Year of construction: 1901

A bit of history. The house was built by the architect Sergei Barankeev. In 1965, the playwright Alexander Volodin lived in it. The most famous films based on his scripts are Five Evenings and Autumn Marathon. Every year, the theater festival "Five Evenings" is held in St. Petersburg in memory of Volodin.

What to look for: in the front hall, it is in good condition. To the right is a tiled fireplace with a lion mask and two columns on the sides. There are stained-glass windows on the windows.

An interesting fact. On the second floor is the Asian restaurant DUO Asia, which has won awards as the best in the city for several years in a row. Here you can order the Japanese dessert mochi, dim sum, tempura crab and sashimi. The average check is 800-1500 R.

Mecklenburg-Strelitzkogo

Address: Rubinstein Street 5, the nearest metro station - Mayakovskaya
How to get: Login Free, the door is not locked
Style: Eklectics
Building: 1897

Little history. The house was in the possession of the Cabinet of His Imperial Majesty - an institution that disposed of the personal property of the Russian imperial family. The next owner was the German Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In 1903, furnished rooms "Noble Nest" were located here, and in Soviet times, repairs of household appliances and bayans with accordions were located here.

Highlights: on the ceiling and moldings with a military theme. The front door is cramped and narrow - this is rather unusual.

Profit House Palkin

Address: Rubinstein Street 4, the nearest metro station - Mayakovskaya
How to get: LOVE FREE, Do not locate
Style: Modern
1904

A bit of history. The building was designed by the architect Alexander Khrenov for the provincial secretary Pavel Palkin, the son of the owner of the Palkin restaurant on Nevsky Prospekt. The house alternately housed offices, workshops, a glove shop, a beer shop, a hairdresser's, and other establishments. At 1925-1928 the publishing house "Vremya" was located here.

About the history of the house on the website of the Center for St. Petersburg Studies

What to look for: on the stucco molding, the Art Nouveau front door and the doors to the apartments finished with leatherette. Now it looks strange, but in Soviet times it was fashionable.

An interesting fact. The writer Vyacheslav Shishkov lived in apartment 7, who at that time was working on the novel "Gloomy River".

Profitable house of the insurance company "Russia"

Address: Bolshaya Morskaya Street, 35, the nearest metro station - Admiralteyskaya
How to get: Entrance is free, inside Rosfota Museum
Style: Modern
Building: 1907 9000 A bit of history. Architects Alexander Gimpel and Vasily Ilyashev built a house for Rossiya Insurance Company. It occupied the second and third floors, apartments were on the fourth and fifth, and shops were on the first. Sketches for the design of the house were drawn by the artist Nicholas Roerich. For example, the campaigns of the Russian army are depicted on the building.

In Soviet times, Lendrevbumtrest, Snabkontor and other institutions were located here.

What to look for: on the bas-reliefs that symbolize the seasons. For example, winter is deer and northern lights.

There are original stained-glass windows in the entrance hall, each window also has its own configuration - no two are alike. At the entrance there is a stove lined with black tiles. Other stoves can be seen in the premises of the Rosphoto Museum.

An interesting fact. The house houses the museum-apartment of Galina Starovoitova and Rosfoto. On Thursdays at 19:00, tours of the house are held. The price is 300 R, the schedule can be found on the official website.

House of the Salamander Insurance Company

Address: Gorokhovaya Street 6, the nearest metro station - Admiralteyskaya
How to get: Entrance Free
Style: Neoclassicism

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A bit of history. At the end of 19centuries there was a profitable house. Architect Nikolai Verevkin rebuilt the building for the Salamander insurance company and added two floors. In Soviet times, the house belonged to the Petrograd Extraordinary Commission - PChK, then - to the OGPU and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In the 60s and 70s there was a maternity hospital here, and now there is a private cosmetology and polyclinic No. 37.

What to look for: to the staircase with cupid lamps, entrance doors with a large vestibule, original chandelier and ceiling.

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An interesting fact. During the Soviet years, the house housed the Higher School of the Ministry of State Security - the Ministry of State Security, where Heydar Aliyev, the future president of Azerbaijan, studied in 1949-1950.

Profitable house Dernov

Address: Tavricheskaya street, 35, the nearest metro station is Chernyshevskaya
concierge
Style: eclectic
Built: 1905

A bit of history. The house was built by the architect Mikhail Kondratyev for the merchant Ivan Dernov. According to legend, in the year the building was commissioned, the owner died of grief: his beautiful wife left for another.

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From 1905 to 1913, the Symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanov lived here. His guests were Blok, Bryusov, Meyerhold, Akhmatova, Gorky and other figures of the Silver Age. The tower of the building is named after Vyacheslav Ivanov.

What to look for. The noses of the figures on the panel are broken off and some details are missing. The front door is in good condition, but the batteries spoil the view. It is strange that they were not painted in the color of the walls.

An interesting fact. On the roof of the tower of the house, Alexander Blok was reading The Stranger.

Profitable house on Tchaikovsky

Address: Tchaikovsky street, 36, the nearest metro station is Chernyshevskaya
How to get there: there is no free access, but you can enter with the tenant
Style: eclectic
Year of construction: the house was rebuilt twice - in 1873 and in 1907

Little is known about the history of building : they say that the house was rebuilt by the architect Vladimir Heine.

What to look for: for caryatids and cupids. Unfortunately, after the repair, the front door was painted in eye-catching green. For some reason, cupids were covered with the same paint, which should be white. The front door could have looked much better if not for such a heartless attitude towards repairs.

An interesting fact. The twin brothers Rzhevsky lived in the house and collected art objects. In 1998 they donated their collection to the Russian Museum. It included paintings and graphics by Aivazovsky, Benois, Kustodiev, Petrov-Vodkin and other artists, as well as furniture, watches and porcelain.

Fadeev's Mansion — Serebryakova's apartment building

Address: Chaikovskogo street, 24, the nearest metro station is Chernyshevskaya
How to get there: entrance is free, the door is not locked
Style: neo-baroque
Built: 1860, 1900

A bit of history. Architect Boris Girshovich rebuilt the house by order of Olga Serebryakova, the wife of a Colonel of the Cavalier Guard Regiment. Aristocrats lived here: Count Loris-Melikov, Prince Svyatopolk-Mirsky and others.

In the 1910s, the building housed the Swedish Embassy. In the same period, the artist Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky lived here. Sometimes he arranged exhibitions in his apartment.

After the revolution, there was the Trudprom No. 1 plant and the cottage workshop of the white goods factory No. 1 of Lengoragroprom. Now the Civil Defense School of the Central District is located on the second floor.

What to look for. This is the only building on the list whose entrance is located not in the center of the front door, but on the left. The entrance group is well preserved. To the right in front of the stairs there is a modest fireplace. On the first floor on the right is a bright door. It is surprising that in Soviet times it was not repainted brown, as was usually done.

An interesting fact. Previously, another house stood in the place of this house. The daughter of the doctor Sergei Botkin, an amateur artist Maria, lived in it. Wanderers gathered in her apartment.

Profitable house of merchant Cherepennikov

Address: Furshtatskaya street, 2-4, or 2/12 on Yandex-maps, the nearest metro station is Chernyshevskaya
How to get there: there is no free access, you can go together with tenant
Style: eclectic
Built: 1902

A bit of history. The house was built by architects Petr Gilev and Nikolai Dmitriev by order of the merchant Cherepennikov. He sold tea, coffee and wine. His shop was located right there in the house. Now the Eurospar supermarket is located in the place of the merchant's shop.

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What to look for: on the door, the chandelier and the high fireplace on the right at the entrance. The old mesh elevator shaft has been preserved. Previously, these were everywhere, but now they are few and far between: they were often replaced with modern ones.

Profitable house of Bak

Address: Kirochnaya street, 24, the nearest metro station is Chernyshevskaya
How to get there: there is no free access, but people constantly come here, so it’s not difficult to get into the house
Style: modern
Built: 1905

A bit of history. Boris Girshovich designed a house for the founder and publisher of the Rech newspaper, Julian Bak. His family settled in the first apartment and occupied the entire floor. War Minister Alexander Rediger lived in 22 rooms on the second floor.

After the revolution, apartments became communal apartments. Back in Soviet times, stained-glass windows, metal decor and mirrors from the front door were removed and destroyed. Now the doors of the apartments look the worst - the paint on them has peeled off badly.

The house is known for its residents - ballet dancers Nina Timofeeva and Vasily Ostrovsky, poet Anatoly Mariengof.

What to look for: on the galleries on the second and fifth floors that connect the main building and the outbuilding. The upper gallery looks a little better than the lower one: it was painted in a calmer color. Stained-glass windows have been preserved on the windows. In one place you can see an artifact of Soviet communal life - a sign with surnames under the bell.

Interesting fact. Residents run a group on social networks where they talk about their house and new discoveries from its history. They planned to create their own museum dedicated to the building.

Profit House of Kraevsky

Address: Lane Ulyana Gromova, 4, the nearest metro station - “Square of uprising”
How to get: free access, but you can go to the front with the vest
Eclecticism
Built: 1881

A bit of history. The house was built by the architect Fomichev. In 2001, the building was recognized as an object of cultural value.

What to look for: on the caryatids at the entrance and on the stucco on the walls. Two ornaments are repeated on each floor - cupids and a vase with flowers.

House of Baroness von Taube - furnished house "Palais-Royal"

Address: Pushkinskaya street, 20, the nearest metro stations are Mayakovskaya and Ploshad Vosstaniya
How to get there: there is no free access, but it is easy to enter, all residents of this large house use one entrance
Style: eclectic
Built: 1876

A bit of history. The house was built by the architect Alexander Ivanov. Initially, it was the Palais Royal Hotel with 99 rooms. Students and petty officials could not afford to stay at this hotel, they could not afford it. But actors and writers often settled here.

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