Many interesting buildings in Moscow, designed in the Art Nouveau style, were created by the famous Russian architect Lev Nikolaevich Kekushev. At the beginning of his career, he worked in an eclectic style but later became a master of Art Nouveau. His first work in Moscow was the Khlyudov Central Baths, built in 1890. Subsequently, he designed the Geer Almshouses on Upper Krasnoselskaya Street, the apartment buildings of A.S. Gagarin on Malaya Varsonofyevsky Lane and I.P. Isakov on Prechistenka, the mansion of I.A. Mindovsky on Povarskaya Street, and Kekushev's own house on Ostozhenka.

A splendid example of Kekushev's Art Nouveau is the income house built in 1902 on Serebryany Lane. The lane got its name in honor of the masters of the Old State Silver Yard who lived here earlier. The house is located at the corner with Krivonikolsky Lane. Previously, there was a small mansion where the young Sergey Rachmaninoff stayed after finishing conservatory. This mansion was demolished, and in its place, Kekushev built a new building for the surgical clinic of Dr. S.M. Rudnev.

In this building, Art Nouveau is combined with elements of Neoclassicism, which is evident in details such as the rusticated walls, fluted columns on the bay windows, and medallions between the windows.

During the 1905 revolution, the house housed a dressing station, and later it became a residence for creative professionals. From 1913 to 1939, the sculptor V.N. Domogatsky lived here, and in the 1920s and 1930s, artists from the Maly Theater, Mikhail Lenin and Vladimir Lebedev, resided here. It also housed the creative association of Moscow and Leningrad artists and graphic artists "Zhar-tsvet," founded in 1923 by masters such as A.P. Ostrova-Lebedeva, N.E. Lansere, M.A. Voloshin, K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, and V.A. Vatagin.

Currently, the building houses the Central Military Clinical Hospital No. 2 named after P.V. Mandryka, and access inside is restricted as the hospital is under guard.