The estate, which once stood along Potapovsky Lane (formerly B. Uspensky Lane), was owned by the Golovins for over one and a half centuries. They were representatives of an ancient noble family, but not from the count's branch descending from Fyodor Alexeyevich Golovin, a companion of Peter I, but from another, side branch. The Golovin family has been known since the late 15th century.

In the early 18th century, the property belonged to Vasily Vasilyevich Golovin, who likely inherited it from his father, the chamberlain Vasily Petrovich Golovin. Vasily Vasilyevich studied navigation in Holland and at the St. Petersburg Naval Academy, served as a chamber junker under Catherine I, but due to disgrace, he did not make a career. He spent most of his time at the family estate Novospasskoye and only came to Moscow in winter. He left autobiographical "Notes on the Poor and Vanity of Human Life."

The estate on Potapovsky Lane was inherited by his son and was passed down primarily through the male line.

The main house of the estate, which has survived to this day, is located at the corner of Potapovsky and Sverchkov Lane and consists of two buildings. The two-story part along Sverchkov Lane was built at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, while the main volume with the portico was constructed in the 1810s, but the work was interrupted due to the war and the devastation of Moscow in 1812. The interior finishing was completed by the 1830s. The house is designed in the classical style, and its main facade facing Potapovsky Lane is adorned with a six-column Corinthian portico on a white stone base, topped with a triangular pediment. The Golovin coat of arms likely adorned the pediment. The first floor of the house is rusticated; above the semicircular windows between the columns of the portico and on the side facades are plaster medallions with ribbons, as well as a "Greek" frieze in the form of a meander, apparently made in the mid-19th century. The original gates with an Empire-style grille and white stone pilasters have been preserved, in the niches of which between the Ionic columns once stood statues or vases.

In the 1880s, the estate was sold to a new owner, the 2nd guild merchant Viktor Frolov, who traded in gold jewelry at the Old Gostiny Dvor. In 1894, the estate passed to State Councillor Nikolai Belyaev, and his heirs owned it until 1917.

Since Soviet times, various institutions have been located here.