The house was built in 1910 by a major patron and ship owner Grigory Gavrilovich Pustovoytov, the architect of the project was E.M. Gulin.

[3] In 1942, during the second occupation of Rostov-on-Don by German fascist troops, the city was exposed to bombing.

Pustovoytov's house were completely burnt down, the fire destroyed all book fund of scientific library.

[4] Before the Great Patriotic War, in place of the new wing was another house of Grigory Pustovoytov and Karapet Chernov which could not be restored after the bombing of 1942.

During the construction of the building, a new frame-walled structural system was use, which is displayed in the plasticity of the facades united in a single rhythmic composition with the predominance of vertical divisions.

The architecture of the end of the XIX beginning of the 20th century was a criterion of Rostov "capital character" and variety.