In the 19th century, this estate was unfortunate, often being resold. After the war and the fire of 1812, Elizabeth Molchanova lived in the wooden house. In the 1840s, the estate passed to the Chaplygin family. In 1875, it was acquired by college assessor Modest Mikhailovich Ternovsky, who sold it two years later to Philip Pavlovich Solovyov. Solovyov planned to build a rental house based on a project by A.S. Kaminsky, but the plot turned out to be too small.

In 1891, Solovyov's widow sold the property to chamber junker Ivan Mikhailovich Leontyev, who two years later transferred it to the merchant family of Ivan Mikhailovich Zhivago. Zhivago attempted to renovate the old mansion and restore the other buildings, but in despair, sold everything to the couple Karl Ivanovich and Rakhil Geste in 1907. Rakhil Geste energetically took on the task, demolishing all the old structures and built a new mansion that same year based on the design by architect Sergey Sergeyevich Shutsman. Shutsman, who worked in the studio of architect Kekushev, created a house resembling stacked cubes, in the style of neoclassicism and modernism. The two- and three-story parts of the building are united by neoclassical decor with a bright rustication on the first floor and classical window frames. The fence is adorned with semicircular niches, characteristic of Empire-style Moscow.

Karl Ivanovich was a member of the board of the Vysokovskaya Manufactory Society near Klin. His main partners were neighbor R.R. MacGill, K.I. Prove, and T.L. Knopp. According to N.M. Suleikin, Geste invested his entire life into the factory, sparing no expense or effort on the technical equipment of the workers' buildings and all structures.

Since 1927, a scientific radio laboratory was located here, and now the Embassy of Algeria is situated here.