The cultural heritage site of federal significance "Hotel at Pokrovsky Gates, early 19th century, (West Wing)" was built according to the design of architect Vasily Petrovich Stasov. It is part of the ensemble of former hotels located at the intersection of the Boulevard Ring and Pokrovka Street.

The two-story building was constructed in 1801-1802 as part of a program to build hotels at the former gates of the White City fortress, which was dismantled in the late 18th century. The decision to build was made by the decree of Emperor Paul I in 1798. Similar hotels built at Nikitsky and Prechistensky gates have not survived, while at Sretensky gate only one of the two wings remains.

Interestingly, as early as the 1770s, the merchant family Andronov, who owned a manor in the neighboring alley (now Lepyokhinsky Lane), built a stone inn with a forge at Pokrovsky Gates. This is now the northern part of house No. 16 on Pokrovka. The West Wing of the hotel designed by Stasov was adjacent to the East Wing numbered 18, which was demolished around 1965. Across the street, another two-story hotel (house No. 17 on Pokrovka) was built, which has survived to this day, although it has been remodeled.

Until 1835, all buildings were united into a single complex through two-story extensions of lesser height, forming internal courtyards. In 1850 and 1872, the facades of the hotels were altered.

From 1913 to 1916, the building housed the cinema "Magic Dreams" with a hall for 327 seats, a reading room, a buffet, and a foyer where an orchestra played. Yuri Olesha and Valentin Katayev, who left memories of this place, visited here. "Magic Dreams" existed until 1930, after which it was replaced by the cinema "Aurora," which operated until 1969. Yuri Nagibin went to see films at "Aurora" in his childhood.

Currently, the building at 16 Pokrovka Street houses offices, shops, restaurants, and small hotels.

The protected elements of the West Wing include the volumetric-spatial composition of the two-story building from the late 18th - 19th century with a basement, an internal open courtyard, and passage arches, including height marks along the crowning cornices and ridges; the roof from the 19th - early 20th century; the compositional solution and architectural-artistic design of the facades from the late 18th - early 19th century, the design of window and door openings; the spatial-planning structure and decorative design of the interiors from the 19th - early 20th century, including the coffered stucco ceiling of the former auditorium and the grand staircase, and the rusticated finish of the walls of the grand staircase.