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Yes, it's a beautiful building in the downtown of St.-Petersburg https://maps.google.com/?ll=59.935336,30.325956&spn=0.002389,0.007993&t=m&z=18&layer=c&cbll=59
by listic 13y ago
Yes, it's a beautiful building in the downtown of St.-Petersburg
https://maps.google.com/?ll=59.935336,30.325956&spn=0.002389,0.007993&t=m&z=18&layer=c&cbll=59.935307,30.326173&panoid=bOZ8CED0Xhw1WNWoDWYX9Q&cbp=12,354.69,,0,-21.26 https://maps.google.com/?ll=59.935336,30.325956&spn=0.002389...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_House http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_House
Interestingly, it was built by Singer Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_Corporation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_Corporation
and essentially became the first business center in Russia [sic!] as lower floors were for Singer show rooms and the higher floors were rented out for other companies. Nowadays lower floors are housing the central book store («Дом Книги»). At the time it was built, its architecture was considered outlandish, but now it's one of the staples of St.-Petersburg.