In the past, on the left bank of the Neglinka River, which is now hidden in an underground collector, there was the Kuznetskaya sloboda. In the 18th century, on the site of the modern house No. 16, there were yards belonging to the blacksmith Grigory Mosiagin and the cannon apprentice Ivan Artemyev.

In the last third of the same century, the ownership passed to foreigners living in Moscow. It was first acquired by a certain Tardieu, then it came into the possession of the widow Margarita Roger, representing the 'French nation.' Later, a shop and a playing card factory opened here, run by the Frenchwoman Ober-Shalme, who supplied the Moscow nobility with fashionable outfits from France.

After the fire of 1812, part of the property was purchased by the merchantess Kristiana Beckers, and then it passed to her heirs. In the store of the Beckers brothers, known for quality artistic goods, orders began to be taken in 1839 for 'the machine invented by Mr. Daguerre in Paris,' which allowed for accurate photographs to be made without knowing how to draw. In the shop window, Muscovites saw the first daguerreotypes depicting views of Moscow.

In 1859, the house of the Beckers was home to the Musical Publishing Company of Alexander Guthel, which by the end of the 19th century became one of the largest in pre-revolutionary Russia and opened a musical instrument shop.

In the late 1870s, the property was acquired by the trading house 'I.V. Junker,' which became the 'Moscow Industrial Bank' in 1916. In 1876, architect Pyotr Santinovich Campioni built a new building for the trading house here.

In 1900, the house was completely rebuilt according to the design of the famous Moscow architect Adolf Ernestovich Erichson, and the facades acquired features of early Moscow modernism. In 1908, another reconstruction was carried out according to the same architect's project.

From 1913 to 1916, the building was once again reconstructed according to the design of architect Vasily Ivanovich Yeramishantsev with the participation of the Vesnin brothers. Erichson's modernism gave way to neoclassicism. The facade of the building is adorned with a deep entrance arch featuring an expressive sculpture of Mercury's head. According to architectural historian M.V. Nashokina, this is one of the best examples of Moscow neoclassicism.

After 1917, the house housed the Moscow office of the State Bank, the publishing house OGIZ, and other publishers. Later, until the 1990s, it was home to the Foreign Trade Bank.

Currently, the building is occupied by the Federal Bailiff Service of the Russian Federation. The house is protected by the state as a cultural heritage site of regional significance.