In 1788, the Moscow police office granted permission to merchants Nikita Terentyev and Peter Kozhevnikov to build on the passageway adjacent to their yards, connecting Tverskaya Street with Dmitrovka. The priests of two nearby churches, St. Sergius the Wonderworker and St. Dmitry of Thessalonica, did not object, as the blockage of the passage did not hinder their movement through the parish yards. In connection with this event, a detailed plan of the area with the buildings located on it was drawn up. According to the plan, Nikita Terentyev owned several yards along the blocked Milk Passage, including a corner property where the dome of the Actor Gallery is now located. Terentyev's construction was wooden, with an empty space in the center. At that time, the left boundary of his yard ran along the ramparts of the Earthen City, so the facades of the buildings did not face that direction. Only two of Terentyev's buildings, facing Tverskaya Street, were made of stone.

In 1776, a few years before the passage was blocked, a stone building already stood on the neighboring plot on Tverskaya, which likely belonged to Prince Ivan Vyazemsky. By the late 1780s, Terentyev's property expanded along Tverskaya, and his neighbor became merchant Zhivov, who possibly purchased the site of the former passage and the property with Vyazemsky's stone house. Zhivov significantly developed the plot, and the plans from the 1830s show a large manor house and an L-shaped utility building, with a garden along the eastern boundary.

Around 1880, Terentyev's plot merged with Zhivov's plot. The western part, previously divided among several owners, came back under the ownership of M.S. Logunova, while the eastern part belonged to her husband, merchant S.E. Logunov. At this time, a project for a new 4-story income house was developed, which occupied both plots, and it was built in 1882.

Under the ownership of Ivan and Andrei Chizhov, the income house acquired a characteristic infrastructure. By 1906, all minor buildings were demolished, and the corner with Strastnoy Boulevard solidified the corner section of the building. Another two-story income house was built on the same axis. The ground floor of the buildings housed shops and an electric theater. This complex existed in this form until the 1920s-1930s, when the redevelopment of Tverskaya Street began. To align the buildings with the new concept, they were raised by two floors, and the corner part was accentuated with a rotunda.

Today, building 16 on Tverskaya Street is a six-story building with a rusticated ground floor, a semi-rotunda at the corner, and restrained decor in the Eclectic style. The building on Strastnoy Boulevard previously housed the publication 'Moscow News,' which left the building after a fire in 1999.