The house was commissioned by Christian Møinichen, a protégé of King Frederick IV, who had been appointed as president of the Chancery in 1725.

[2] Construction began in 1729 but when the king died the following year, Møinichen fell out of favour at the Court.

He was charged with several cases of mismanagement, dismissed from all his posts without a pension and sentenced to return a large sum of money to the Treasury.

The building on Købmagergade continued to house a local post office for the city centre.

The façade on Kønmagergade is seven bays wide with a 1-bay central projection topped by a small triangular pediment with Christian IX's monogram.

[6] PFA Pension has commissioned Revco Property Development and Aarstiderne Arkitekter to undertake a renovation of the building which is expected to be completed media 2016.