The flat house is located in the center of Zhitomir, at the intersection between Theatre and Victory square. The unique building is often called "the House in the shape of a heart" or "Home-Chimera". This name it has earned thanks to its unconventional architectural solution.

Building in the historic center of Zhitomir was built in the mid-nineteenth Geographically its location corresponds to the pre-revolutionary radial layout of the city. Originally the house was a corner and stood on the corner of the intersection. In order to use the entire land plot, the building had to engineer it to fit into the square under unusually acute angle. Looking at the house from a certain angle, it creates a false impression that he has just a facade with Windows and other walls just isn't there and the house is flat. And two wings of the building gave it the form of a heart. Similar houses before the revolution were also erected in Lviv and Odessa.

The secret of this architectural "cheating" is very simple. The thing is that the end wall of the so-called Flat house was located not at a right angle to the facade, as it usually is, but at a sufficiently acute angle. Use this architectural technique the builders had, for various reasons, but initially this feature was hiding nearby buildings, but after their demolition of unusual house has become a landmark.

Rumor has it that in the building until 1917, housed a brothel. In fact, the house that has the shape of a heart, was built as the city's fire Department. As for brothels, he actually was in the area, but in place of today's "Zhytomyr".