The Income House on Leontievsky Lane is an interesting example of metropolitan architectural eclecticism, reaching the point of clear "stylistic diversity." It is also an example of the transformation of a private mansion into an income house.

The lower two floors of the building, erected on a low plinth, were built between 1896 and 1898 according to the design of architect Alexander Kaminsky, one of the well-known Moscow architects of the late 19th century. Architect August Weber participated in the construction, having worked with Kaminsky in the early 1880s on the pavilions of the All-Russian Art and Industry Exhibition at Khodynka Field.

The house was built for V.B. Spiridonova, the wife of a hereditary honorary citizen. She was known in Moscow as a philanthropist, having donated a significant sum of 300,000 rubles to a charitable institution on the Petersburg highway. The facades of Spiridonova's house are styled after Italian Renaissance architecture and resemble a small "palazzo" with semi-circular windows on the grand second floor and a characteristic cornice of small arches. The decoration of the grand halls on the second floor, with four-meter ceilings, was luxurious.

The upper three floors of the building were added in 1912, when buildings in central Moscow began to noticeably increase in height. At that time, the small private mansion became an income house, corresponding to the new scale of urban development. The upper floors are designed in the classical style, popular in the early 20th century, and are adorned with "big order" pilasters that visually unify the entire addition. However, the lower and upper parts of the building contrast significantly in style.

In the 1920s, the nationalized building housed the "House of Artistic Education," although most of the premises remained residential apartments.

Inside the house, some of the decor of the grand halls from Spiridonova's time has been preserved, including historical stucco work, and the marble grand staircase has been restored.

The house has the status of a historically valuable urban-forming object. In modern Moscow, it has retained its original residential function but is now considered elite housing.