From all the architectural sights of St. Petersburg, that form the unique features of our city, very often red-brick plants and factories with huge pipes over the their sectors, gasholders, tram depots, water-towers, electric power stations are left without attention. That very special industrial style in architecture had developed and gained its characteristic features by the middle of the 19 th century. The best architects, civil engineers of St. Petersburg worked in the field of industrial architecture. Among them one can name Berngard, Kitner, Merz, Serk, and Trusov. The power of endurance, amazing quality of constructions, and, of course, the architecture of industrial buildings are still unbelievably striking. It seems, that some kind of magically attractive and scaring energy is hidden in them, as if the vital power of people who had worked here and disappeared in revolutions, wars, times remained inhere.

It must be mentioned that most of the factories, plants, depots built in the end of the 19 th , beginning of the 20 th century still work, and “the working heart of St. Petersburg still beats” in there.

The building was constructed to the design of the architect Von Pirviz in 1880s.