The enormous building occupies the entire end of the block between Vishnyakovsky and 1st Novokuznetsky lanes. The corner of the building is designed as a rotunda. The facade is adorned with half-columns of a giant composite order, and the entablature is decorated with ornamental vases. The central part of the facade is highlighted by a two-story angular bay window. The central and side risalits are decorated with flat composite pilasters that visually unite the second to fourth floors. A cornice with frequent stucco brackets runs above the windows of the fourth floor, completing the rotunda. The entrances of the house are decorated with fine rustication.

Architect Ganeshin designed many buildings in pre-revolutionary Moscow, including a residential building and a factory for the jewelry firm 'F. A. Lorié' on Zvonnarsky Lane and the building of the Old Believer Theological Teacher's Institute at Rogozhskoye Cemetery. Fyodor Alexeyevich was a member of the Moscow Society of Architects and worked for some time as an architect for the Moscow Committee for the Care of the Poor, collaborating with the firms of M. S. Kuznetsov, G. List, and the Khlyudovs.

Shortly before the Great Patriotic War, the house on Pyatnitskaya Street was raised by two floors. However, this was done very carefully, unlike the nearby house No. 47, which was spoiled by an unsuccessful two-story addition. Without knowledge of the addition, it is almost impossible to notice it.

Currently, the house is residential. On the first floor is one of the oldest and most famous stores for dance shoes, clothing, and other dance goods in Moscow, where, it is said, many stars of the stage order stage costumes.