The house where Ivan Konev was born in 1897 was built by his grandfather in the mid-19th century. While living here, Konev graduated from a rural three-grade church school located four versts from Lodeyno in the village of Yakovlevskaya Gora. He then continued his education at a four-grade zemstvo school in the village of Shchetkin, which is ten versts from Lodeyno. As Konev himself recalled, walking ten versts back and forth in winter was not easy, but the desire to learn was great.

After finishing school, he worked for a year as a tally clerk for timber acceptance. In 1916, Konev went to Arkhangelsk, where he was drafted to the front in World War I. In 1932, the house was repurposed as a primary school. The museum in this house was first opened in 1947, for the 50th anniversary of the marshal, but Konev requested to abandon the creation of the museum and did not even attend its opening. The museum operated for three years until 1950, when at Konev's request, a rural library was organized in the house, to which he sent books.

In the same 1950, a bust of Konev, created by sculptor E.V. Vuchetich, was installed near the house by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. The museum reopened for the second time in 1977, after the marshal's death, on the 80th anniversary of his birth. The house has remained almost in its original form, with only the rotting lower logs replaced and the foundation strengthened, but it requires regular maintenance.

In 2011 and 2018, the idea of relocating the House-Museum to Kirov was actively discussed, as the village of Lodeyno, with only 20 residents left, is a remote and hard-to-reach place, and the journey from Kirov takes about 6 hours. By 2020, the visitor log recorded 125,000 visitors over the 30 years of the museum's existence, but in recent years, the number of visitors has been around 1,500 per year, and only during the summer period.

The museum complex includes the house, a log cabin with cold porches, an outbuilding and a ramp, a well-crane, a black bathhouse with a wooden roof, a barn with a shed, and a bust of I.S. Konev on a granite pedestal, created by sculptor E.V. Vuchetich. The house and all structures date back to the mid-19th century and are regional heritage monuments, while the bust is a federal cultural heritage object. The exhibition in the house's porch is dedicated to the labor and life of peasants at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, while the rooms contain exhibits about the life and activities of I.S. Konev, including his 1944 portrait, front commander certificates, and personal belongings.