The multifunctionality of a building combining trade premises and a hotel is the characteristic of Shekhtel's works at the beginning of the 1900-s. Facades hiding the frame structure are designed in Modern style. Horizontals of interfloor overlappings are decorated with informative compositions. "Boyarsky Dvor Hotel" inscriptions are placed above the main entrance on the surface of the right firewall. Two passage arches lead to the inner courtyards space. Street facades are decorated in a spirit of the Vienna Secession where the plane of a facade is enriched with modelled plastic elements (balconies, sculptural compositions) with distinctive curvilinear outlines. Courtyard facades of the building show more underlined tectonics of architectural disjunctions: they are deprived of modelled decorations and furnished only by graphics of plaster drafts which is characteristic of late rational constructions of the architect. The architect A. A. Galetsky was Shekhtel's assistant on a construction of the building.
In October 1921 the building of "Boyarsky dvor" was provided to People's Commissariat for Agriculture by the decision of VTsIK Presidium. Later the construction was transferred to the Central Committees of the CPSU. Nowadays the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation is located here.