The house was built in 1823-1827 by architect Domenico Adamini. The buildingis decorated in the classical style, features a balcony with columns and pilasters, two facades with porticos and stucco with griffins. Many famous people rented an apartment here, including the writer Leonid Andreev, composer Isaac Dunaevsky, futurist poet Vasily Kamensky. Pavel Shilling, the inventor of the electromagnetic telegraph, also lived here, and among people came to visit him were Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, Ivan Andreevich Krylov and Emperor Nicholas I. In memory of the inhabitants of the house, memorial plaques are installed on its facade.

At the beginning of the XX century, the "Art Bureau" of gallery owner Nadezhda Dobychina opened on the second floor of the Adamini house. Exhibitions of Russian avant-garde artists from the creative associations "Jack of Diamonds" and "World of Art" were held here. Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich and Nathan Altman exhibited their works in the bureau. From 1916 to 1919, the literary and artistic cabaret "Halt of Comedians" worked in the building.