At the end of the 18th century, a separate urban estate was created here. In the early 19th century, an L-shaped wooden main house was built on its territory. After a devastating fire caused by the French, the development was completely destroyed and restored in the 1820s under the nobleman Konstantin Kritzky. The new house was constructed according to a principle typical for small estates in Moscow after the fire, along the red line of the alley with a slight setback. Such wooden houses with a mezzanine on a stone basement were called "boveshki" in honor of the architect Osip Ivanovich Bove, who headed the "Commission for the Buildings of Moscow" after Napoleon's expulsion. It is believed that Bove developed the first standard design for a one-story mansion with a mezzanine. In addition to the main house, utility buildings appeared on the estate, located deep within the plot, and a small garden next to the mansion.

In the mid-19th century, a rectangular residential wing was built along Golikovsky Alley. Surprisingly, all the buildings of the estate remained wooden, and the courtyard occupied a significant area. At a time when stone buildings were actively being constructed in Moscow, the property on Golikovsky Alley retained semi-rural features. In the 1870s, the estate passed to Elizabeth Nikolaevna Koposova, under whom the wing next to the main house was dismantled and a new wooden building was constructed in the southern part of the property. By the end of the 19th century, the mansion received two more transverse mezzanines on both sides.

In 1913, the owner of the estate became the merchant Pavel Nikolaevich Baraboshkin. At that time, a detailed plan of the property was drawn up: the main house was located along Golikovsky Alley, next to it was a small garden, along the southern boundary stood a shed, and deep in the yard was a residential wing with a porch. The estate on Golikovsky Alley was an example of patriarchal urban life, without plumbing and sewage. Water was drawn from a well in the yard.

In the 1960s, all the buildings of the former urban estate, except for the main house, were demolished. Fortunately, the mansion with the mezzanine has survived. Very few of such wooden houses remain in Moscow, and they need to be preserved especially carefully. In 2010, the Moscow Heritage Commission noted that "the volumetric-spatial composition of the building, its internal layout, and the structure of the interiors have been preserved in their original form." Recently, the restoration of this architectural monument was completed. Although "boveshki" usually did not have lavish decor, the former house of Kritzky attracts attention with its original window frames and cornices.