Since the mid-18th century, the estate on Pyatnitskaya Street belonged to a wealthy merchant and builder of the church of Clement, Pope of Rome, Kuzma Matveevich Matveev. After 1758, the construction of the first stone buildings began on this site. In the 1780s, when the estate was owned by Anna Grigorievna Matveeva, the widow of the previous owner, a two-story P-shaped main house was built along the red line of Pyatnitskaya Street. Before Napoleon's invasion of Moscow, a third floor was added to the building. The house was damaged in the 1812 fire but was restored. Six years later, the Matveevs sold the estate to the city to house the Pyatnitskaya police station and fire depot. A three-tiered wooden watchtower was erected over the central part of the building, and wings were added on the courtyard side.

For police needs, the internal layout of the house was changed, but there were no significant changes in the following decades. In the 19th century, the first floor housed barracks for police and firefighters, a clerk's room, and apartments for the assistant doctor and engineer. The second floor contained the office and a large apartment for the private bailiff, the head of the police station, while the third floor had apartments for the doctor and the clerk, as well as a telegraph. The building had three staircases, and a garden was laid out on the side of Kuznetskaya (Novokuznetskaya) Street. In 1920, the watchtower was removed, but the fire station remained here for several more years. During the Soviet era, the southern wing of the building was partially dismantled.

Today, the former Matveev house has been researched and restored. The building has almost completely preserved the volumetric-spatial solution and planning structure of the 1830s-50s. The composition of the main facade dates back to the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The base of the house is highlighted by a rusticated basement, while the central part is adorned with a six-column Corinthian pilaster portico on a risalit. The lower part of the portico is emphasized by elegant balustrades. Two windows in the side parts of the facade are decorated with pilasters with archivolts and round rosettes, characteristic of high classicism. Today, the house on the red line of Pyatnitskaya plays an important role in the development of the street. Currently, it houses the central office of the Yabloko party.