The Shelaputins come from a merchant family from Pokrov. In the late 18th century, they moved to Moscow and engaged in trade in the Candle Row, which allowed them to accumulate significant wealth. Prokofy Dmitrievich served as the Moscow mayor in 1811 and 1813. For his donation of a 'mineral cabinet' to the Moscow Medical-Surgical Academy, he was granted noble status and awarded an order. All his descendants already held noble titles.

Pavel Grigorievich Shelaputin, holding the rank of state councilor, built a gynecological institute at Moscow University and a gymnasium named after Grigory Shelaputin. He also founded a vocational school named after Anatoly Shelaputin. The villa 'Swallow's Nest' in Crimea also belonged to the Shelaputin dynasty.

The income house of Pavel Grigorievich Shelaputin was constructed between 1905 and 1907 according to the design of architect P.P. Shchekotov. In 1926, the building was reconstructed and two additional floors were added by engineers G.D. Zinoviev and A.F. Loleit, and it housed the Moscow Council of National Economy (Mossovnarhoz).

The building is designed in the neoclassical style, and its facades resonate with the architecture of the St. Petersburg International Commercial Bank and the Azov-Don Bank on Ilyinka Street, as well as with the administrative building of architect V.M. Mayat and the houses of the Northern Insurance Society, creating a unified ensemble of the historical development of Ilyinka Street.

Since the 1950s, the building housed the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU. Contemporaries recall that there was a large furnace in the basement of the house, originally used for heating (heat was supplied through air ducts), and during the Soviet era, it was used for the destruction of secret documents. When the furnace was dismantled to expand the basement, many unburned ink bottles were found alongside the ashes.