This house, built in the Russian style and belonging to the church of Nicholas the Wonderworker, is formally listed on Arbat but is actually located second from the corner on Silver Lane.

The construction permit was issued in February 1912. The project was developed by architect Leonid Vasilyevich Stezhenkov, born in 1868; the date of his death is unknown. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture and later worked as an architect for the Pokrovskaya community of the Sisters of Mercy.

The southern part of the building was intended for a meeting hall, library, almshouse, and school of the Brotherhood of St. Nicholas, founded in 1865, and was built in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. On the second floor, there were two classrooms for the church parish school, while the semi-basement housed a dining room, storerooms, and rooms for servants.

In the adjacent entrance, apartments for priests were planned on the second and third floors, and on the fourth, for a deacon. The remaining apartments were rented out to Muscovites to generate income for church needs. Most of them were five-room apartments and had rooms for servants. Wood stoves were installed in the kitchens.

The entrance to the public part of the building was located in the southern extension from the side of Arbat. The entrance portal resembled ancient Russian church doors, and above the extension rose a four-sided tent, set on a complex composition of a large kokoshnik with three small kokoshniks and a kiot with an icon. The tent was topped with a weather vane featuring the Romanov coat of arms.

Leonid Vasilyevich Stezhenkov designed the tented entrance to the house on the same axis as the church of Nicholas the Wonderworker, located opposite across Silver Lane. This created an interesting architectural composition in the Russian style.

The church of Nicholas the Wonderworker was founded in the 16th century. Around it lived the streltsy of the order, commanded in the 17th century by representatives of the Poltev family. This streltsy regiment ranked second after the Strelyannoy regiment and guarded the Kremlin or accompanied the tsar on trips. The stone single-domed church with kokoshniks was built during Boris Godunov's reign and stood until the mid-19th century. In 1860, a new church was consecrated on its site. Its freestanding bell tower, preserved from the 17th century, faced Arbat. The church and bell tower were demolished in 1931.