Tyrin's Merchant House

Tyurin Merchant's House - a wooden two-story mansion with a mansard roof in the historical center of Penza. The estate was built before 1866 and belonged first to Varvara Zagoskina, then to lumber merchant Stepan Tyurin, after whom it was inherited by his wife Lyubov. After restoration in the 1970s, the building housed the Museum of Folk Creativity. The structure is a monument of wooden architecture of the Penza region.