The two-story brick building is located deep within the site, closer to the Moskva River. Its cubic shape with a gabled roof, tall chimneys, and narrow windows is characteristic of chambers from the late 17th century. It is likely the oldest house of the leather quarter, which was fully formed in the 16th century. The chronicle of the fire in 1547 mentions that potters and tanners were located in this area. In the following century, there were 51 households here. The chambers possibly combined residential and production functions: the first floor housed a large single-column chamber that served as the office for managing the quarter. Here, clerks and tax collectors worked, overseeing and collecting taxes. On the lower floor, goods produced in the quarter were likely stored. It may have been a residential house where production was on the first floor and the owner lived on the second.

The second floor had two entrances from the west and south sides. Niches for candle lanterns are well-preserved. This floor is more richly decorated: the windows are adorned with triangular pediments and intricate brick surrounds with columns. The first floor is separated from the second by a horizontal band with a ledge. The building is topped with a three-part brick cornice, covered with a slab that extends beyond the wall plane.

After Peter I's reforms, the chambers were used as a customs yard, where merchants paid a tax for transporting goods across the Moskva River. Not far from the chambers was a ferry crossing point, near the modern Novospassky Bridge. In the 19th century, various government institutions were located here, and later the building was rented out.

After the revolution in the 1920s, the mansion was converted into a dormitory, removing the central load-bearing column and dismantling the vaults of the second floor. A two-story extension was also added, doubling the length of the building.

In the 1970s, the building was planned for demolition to construct a Central Pumping Station, but restorers intervened, repaired the roof, restored the column, and conducted renovations.

Since 1983, the building has housed the publishing house of the magazine 'Knowledge, Power.'