Past eras are firmly intertwined in the history of the building known as the “Governor's House”. Even among modern elegant urban architecture, it attracts attention with its exquisite appearance. The house was erected in 1840—1850 at the expense of Major Grigory Ivanovich Shcherbakov. Managing the provincial excise office, he had enough money to build a two-story building with a mezzanine (superstructure in the middle part), the facade and interior of which received a Gothic stylization in the spirit of Romanticism. It was like this in the 1860s. it was seen by the architect A. Dostoevsky, calling the building “the most beautiful in the then Ekaterinoslav”. He recalls that even the heir to the throne of the Russian Empire, Alexander II's son Nicholas Alexandrovich, stayed here. Later this building was rented for its meetings by the English Club. A “decent public” visited him “for the pleasant pastime of the various permitted games, reading books, periodicals, and other pursuits...”