The first inhabitants of the house, expected by his name, were the Marchenko family. The director of the bank, a member of the Kherson city council and state adviser Savva Vasilievich Marchenko, his wife, teacher, Valentina Ivanovna Marchenko and their children.
The second floor, indicated by windows with keel arches, was intended for parents, reception and dining room. The first basement, which we can see from the street through small square windows in the ground, was exclusively a children's floor, where their five children lived in five separate rooms. After some time, the house ceased to be just a house. And part of the premises passed under the educational institution on the idea of his wife, then raved about the creation of a female gymnasium.
The idea was not fully realized immediately. Only when permission was received from the educational leadership. It all started with the opening of a private primary school for both sexes. With the teaching of French, German, training children from 6 to 12 years old before entering secondary schools and kindergarten.
But the plan still hung in the air and finally found its place. In 1912, the construction of a four-story building for the already female gymnasium began in the courtyard. Two years later, the work was completed and the entire educational function was transferred from home to a separate building. Which, subsequently, was supplemented by a two-story dormitory.
The Marchenko House itself in 1917, in the early days of the revolution, its native inhabitants left - Savva Vasilyevich Marchenko because of death, and his wife was forced to leave the city with her children. During World War II, for unknown reasons, horses seized the house. But in 1932 he was returned to people - under the Regional House of the Teacher.
