The house with a long facade on Neglinnaya Street, between Kuznetsky Bridge and Pushkin Street, belonged to the Moscow Merchant Society before the revolution. It was built in 1888 on the site of an old three-story building. The construction was accompanied by one of the most serious technological disasters of the 19th century in Moscow.

In October 1888, the nearly completed income house, designed by architect A.S. Kaminsky, collapsed. Eleven people died under the rubble, and another eleven were seriously injured. An expert commission identified numerous technological errors, mainly due to the accelerated pace of construction: the builders were eager to finish the work by winter and rushed the workers. Although Kaminsky's project did not reveal any structural errors, he was found guilty of violating construction safety standards and sentenced to church penance and six weeks of house arrest. This punishment marked the collapse of his professional career. Until his death in 1897, he did not receive new orders, remaining an architect only for the Tretyakov brothers, his relatives, as he was married to Sofia Mikhailovna Tretyakova.

Nevertheless, the house on Neglinnaya Street was completed according to his design. Over the years, it housed famous stores, such as the jewelry shops of K. Fabergé and F.A. Lorié, the Datsyaro store with art reproductions and paintings, the tea shop of Pyotr Botkin, and the furniture salon of P.A. Schmitt.

In 1907, the house was reconstructed according to the design of architect V.V. Sherwood. During the Soviet era, the upper floors of the building housed communal apartments. In the 1950s and 1960s, the famous bard and actor Yuri Vizbor lived in apartment No. 9 on the third floor with his first wife Ada Yakusheva. In the late 1960s, the house was vacated, and the Main Department of Culture of the Moscow City Executive Committee moved in. Today, it houses the Department of Culture of Moscow.

On the first floor, there were a popular shashlik restaurant and the cafe 'Polevoy Stan,' as well as a musical instrument store that still operates today. The income house of the Moscow Merchant Society is recognized as a cultural heritage site.