The small two-story house No. 3 reflects the typical development of the Lefortovo area, where, since the mid-19th century, small officials, craftsmen, and merchants lived. The houses here were small, most often two stories high.

The passage connecting Yelokhovskaya Square (now a park) with Lower Krasnoselskaya Street was called Yelokhov or Bogoyavlensky in honor of the Church of the Epiphany in Yelokhovo (now the cathedral of the Patriarchate). The name Yelokhovsky was established for the passage after the revolution, in the 1920s.

In the first half of the 19th century, the plot where house No. 3 stands occupied the entire corner of the passage and Krasnoselskaya Street. The Khotyev plan of 1852 shows a building located on the site of the current house.

In the second half of the 19th century, the plot was divided among three owners. House No. 3 belonged to the wife of a priest, Anna Vasilyevna Dmitrieva.

At this time, the exterior finishing of the house was carried out. The facade, executed in a pseudo-classical style, did not have a portico. The cartouches above the windows of the second floor are decorated with an ornament resembling a Greek infinity ribbon. The cornice is supported by elegant stucco modillions. Old photographs show a pediment that adorned the left part of the building. The first floor is finished with rustication, and stucco decorations have been preserved above the windows.

The second owner of the house was Ekaterina Ivanovna Orlova, who lived here until the 1917 revolution. The further fate of the house is unknown, but it is likely that it was divided into communal apartments, like many Moscow mansions.