An unexpected result was obtained during the cleaning of the entrance group at the cultural heritage of regional significance at 9 Leningradsky Prospekt in Vyborg. Under numerous layers of Soviet-era paintwork, the author's ornaments that once adorned the front of the five-storey profitable house, built by order of Alfa JSC in 1907 according to the project of architect A. Shulman in the Northern Art Nouveau style, were revealed.