It may seem incredible, but this small five-story pink building in eclectic style was one of the first multi-story apartment buildings in Moscow at the end of the 19th century. Its owner was a German woman, Clara Kirchhoff.

The house stood out with its "lace" balconies with cast-iron railings that adorned its main facade. Until the end of the 1980s, a large balcony on the second floor remained, which, according to legend, belonged to the apartment of the owner herself. However, after a major renovation, this balcony was lost, and the former "lace" of the small semicircular balconies was replaced with new railings styled "in the old manner."

Interestingly, one of the apartments in this house was rented for several years by A. P. Chekhov's sister, Maria Pavlovna, who was studying painting at the Stroganov School at the time. In 1896, Chekhov wrote to Nemirovich-Danchenko: "Masha lives there, just like last year: Sukharevskaya-Sadovaya, Kirchhoff House." Until 1904, Maria Pavlovna taught history and geography at the private women's gymnasium of L. Rzhevskaya on Sadovaya-Samotecnaya Street, where the GIBDD building is now located. Lydia Stakhievna Mizinova, known as Lika, a friend and colleague of Maria Chekhova at the L. Rzhevskaya gymnasium, also visited this house.