The Convent of the Deposition of the Robe was founded in 1207. Some buildings dating back to the 16th to 17th centuries have survived to this day. According to the legend, the convent had survived thanks to the prayers said by the Venerable Euphrosyne of Suzdal which saved it from being ruined by the Batu Khan's army.

In early July 1876, it was decided to build a cathedral. The nobility, merchants, clergy, and ordinary citizens collected 10,000 roubles in silver for the Cathedral, which was erected in 1879. Then, five years of finishing works followed. The Transfiguration Cathedral was consecrated in 1884.

In 1958, the monument was placed in the middle of Sobornaya Square, and it was opened to the public much later, on 30 October 1960.
The monument is a 22-metre-high stele with three three-metre-high figures in the centre. These figures represent the symbols of the city: an architect, an Old Russian warrior and a worker holding a model of a tractor. The architect is looking at the Assumption Cathedral, the warrior is looking at the defensive Golden Gate and the worker is looking at the industrial area of the city where the tractor factory used to be.

The exhibition hall of the Gorokhovets Historical and Architectural Museum was opened in 2010 in the house of Semyon Semyonychev, a second guild merchant. Its friendly atmosphere and state-of-the-art equipment make the exhibition hall one of the favourite cultural entertainment places for the residents and guests of Gorokhovets. Visitors can attend district-, region-, and nation-level rotating exhibitions. They feature paintings, masterpieces of applied craftsmanship, and works of famous photographers, as well as authentic antiques from the stock collections of the Gorokhovets Museum and relics of travelling exhibitions of the country's museums.