Pacific Ocean (hotel and theater)

The building at 1 Svetlanskaya consists of two buildings built at different times at the end of the 19th century. and united as a result of reconstruction in 1910 ^[2] .

The corner part of the building was built in 1894-1897 as the Hotel Pacific Ocean (Hotel de la Mer Pacifique), Vladivostok merchant of the 2nd guild Alexander Alexandrovich Ivanov, a native of the city of Batum. At the request of the Amur governor-general, he was granted an interest-free loan of 35,000 rubles for 8 years. The real cost of construction amounted to 100 thousand rubles. The hotel had 52 rooms with all amenities at a price of 75 cents to 7 rubles per day. The maid consisted of Japanese and Chinese, fluent in English and French. The hotel had water heating from a boiler room located in the back of the plot and its own power station ^[2] .

In 1899, a theater of the same name was built near the hotel ^[2] .

Due to intense competition with the hotel and the Golden Horn Theater (built in 1903), as well as economic difficulties associated with the Russo-Japanese War, A.A. Ivanov went bankrupt in 1905, and died in 1906. The building became the property of L.S. Radomyshelsky and D.A. Zimmerman, who opened the first cinema in the city here. In 1909, the owner of the hotel and theater was Georgy Dmitrievich Antipas, who began to rebuild the building into a residential building with shops on the ground floor. Perestroika was completed by the Russo-Asian Bank, which acquired the building in 1910. In 1919, the building was expropriated by the Soviet government. From 1936 to the 1970s, the Dalenergo representative office was located here, and then for a while - the society of the blind. Currently it is a residential building ^[2] .

The house is built in the eclectic style. It is a stone three-story building, L-shaped in plan. It overlooks the corner of Svetlanskaya and Pogranichnaya streets. The longer part is elongated along Svetlanskaya street. Along the Border, due to lowering the relief, has one basement. The house is strictly located on the corner of the block. The angular part is characteristically distinguished by a small ledge with flat blades and an easy fixing of the cornice. The angle is also accented by the completion with a square dome and a small spire ^[2] .

The facade from Svetlanskaya street is solved asymmetrically. The main entrance is emphasized by a ledge with balconies and an attic with a curved finish. The right side of the facade forms a wide ledge with a more frequent rhythm of windows and balconies above the exit. The first and ground floors are indicated by a horizontal rust and have large square windows-windows ^[2] .

Specialists at the Arsenyev Museum noted that the house, one of the few in the city, has a well-yard, which are extremely common in St. Petersburg. This type of planning did not take root in Vladivostok ^[2] .

In the design of the facades traced elements of classicism, the Baroque direction and free-style work with proportions, which is typical for the eclectic style. The floors are tiled with metlakh tiles, popular during the construction years of the building. In Vladivostok, the floors of many historic buildings are lined with similar tiles, including the Arsenyev Museum building, the railway station building, the buildings of the Big and Small GUM ^[2] .

• Svetlanskaya street
• Architecture of Vladivostok