This house on Novaya Basmannaya, known as the "fireproof," was famous for its art gallery, which contemporaries called the Moscow Hermitage in miniature. Here, one could see a variety of art pieces elegantly and tastefully displayed.

The large estate, stretching almost to Old Basmannaya Street, was built in the 1790s for Nikita Nikitich Demidov (the younger), a representative of the famous dynasty of Ural industrialists. Demidov acquired this property from Count N.A. Golovin and erected a large three-story stone house with two symmetrical wings and a service wing in the courtyard on the site of old wooden structures.

The architectural appearance of the house, characteristic of early classicism, has been preserved to this day. The main facade is adorned with pilasters with Corinthian capitals, niches with delicate stucco decor, rosettes in the frieze, and rustication at the first floor level. Between the main house and the wings, a stone fence with gate pylons has been preserved.

In 1805, the estate was purchased by Prince Mikhail Petrovich Golitsyn, a chamberlain and actual chamberlain, who previously owned an estate on Old Basmannaya Street. After the fire of 1812, Golitsyn's house became known as the "fireproof" as it survived the flames.

In 1834, the estate was bought by the Guardianship Council of Public Charitable Institutions for the establishment of an Orphanage. In 1837, a church dedicated to the Assumption of St. Anna was built, with its apse visible from the left side of the main building.

In 1876, the Basmannaya Hospital for laborers was established here, redesigned according to the project of architect A.A. Meingard. It was one of the largest hospitals in Moscow, designed for 660 beds. The first chief physician was Doctor of Medicine Pyotr Nikolayevich Fedorov, the father of the famous court surgeon Sergey Petrovich Fedorov.

The hospital still operates today as City Clinical Emergency Hospital No. 6. The interiors of the main house have preserved the original vaulted rooms on the first floor and the grand vestibule with paired columns of the Doric order, created, presumably, in the 1830s.