On Spartakovskaya Street and in Pleteshkovsky Lane stands a stylish two-story corner house, built in 1882. Previously, this was the estate of Moscow merchant Smirnov. The name of Pleteshkovsky Lane preserves the memory of a Moscow area with a tangled network of alleys known as Pleteshki.

The corner section of the house stretched along the lane, included a small inner garden, and many minor outbuildings. In the 1880s, the house passed to Nadezhda Andreyevna Golubeva, the wife of a titular counselor. By 1882, the building was reconstructed: both facades were done in the fashionable neoclassical style of the time, the windows of the second floor were adorned with floral garland stucco, and the corners were highlighted with rustication.

The main entrance to the house is traditionally located on the side of Pleteshkovsky Lane. At the end of the 19th century, most houses around the Yelokhovsky Cathedral looked similar, creating a cozy ensemble that harmoniously echoed the majestic cathedral.

This corner of Moscow at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century differed little from the Russian provinces. Writer and art historian S.N. Durylin recalled his childhood spent near Golubeva's house: "Our house was in Pleteshki, a minute's walk from Yelokhova, where the tram ran and carriages traveled. Will anyone believe now that in our garden, not far from the outskirts of Moscow, nightingales flew in every spring and sang all May in the lilacs! My father, coming from the city, would sit in the evening on the balcony overlooking the blooming garden, inhaling the fragrance of apple, cherry, and lilac blossoms, and listening to the nightingale chirping in our garden."

In the 1890s, N.A. Golubeva opened a private clinic in her house for patients with "nervous and mental illnesses." Durylin recalled that in one of the wings lived a doctor who would light a lamp under a green shade every evening at five o'clock, by which the time in the house was checked. The clinic was located in a large two-story stone building with a small balcony supported by atlantes in the form of two bearded men. Unfortunately, the balcony has not survived.

Golubeva's heirs owned the house until the 1917 revolution, and the clinic closed shortly before this event. Likely, in the 1920s, the house was converted into communal apartments, like many mansions in post-revolutionary Moscow. Now, a multi-story building rises where the garden and outbuildings once stood.