The building, built in 1911 with funds novouzenskoye of the second Guild merchant Stepan Pavlovich Petrov. The two-storey building housed its office, warehouse store agricultural machinery and implements and residential premises.

.P.Petrov 1866, a native of the town of Volsk, Saratov region, who comes from a bourgeois family who received home education and began his career as a teenager when you move to Saratov in grocers father. Polite, prompt and Executive Stepan quickly gained a good reputation and mastered commercial case. Soon the young specialist was invited to store agricultural machinery R.To.ERTA (the house of Artow, St.Soviet 10), to the post of clerk. Getting a decent salary With.P.Petrov first helped parents financially, and then digging some money, he opened his own business selling agricultural machinery in Pokrovskaya Sloboda (now g.Engels). In 1900 he became a merchant of the second Guild, and 1917, the famous industrialist and businessman With.P.Petrov to become a merchant of the first Guild and in 1918 during the civil war, the family hastily left Russia. In 1926 With.P.Petrov dies, leaving behind three daughters.

In Soviet times the building Petrova was "socialized" and from 1917 to the 1930s, the building housed the club to them. L. Trotsky, SAPP (Saratov Association of proletarian writers) and exchange the unemployed. In 1984, when the building was assumed to convert for a restaurant Moldova, during repairs to the wall have found a treasure of 374 gold coins. In the 1990s, the building was occupied by JSC "Saratov Palace of youth", then the chamber of Commerce (the latter initiated the installation of the corner of the facade sculpture of the God of trade mercury, A. Shcherbakov). In our time, the house of the merchant and industrialist S. P. Petrova is a trade organization. The building is of architectural and historical landmark in the city of Saratov.