The house was built in 1938-1939 according to the project designed by Ferdynand Kasler, a famous Lviv architect. This is a kind of summary of the architect's works implemented in 1910-1939 which reflected all the fashionable genres and styles of the times.

This example is a vivid embodiment of the construction policy carried out by Lviv's administration. Although the house is located in the city center with its dense housing and narrow streets, its façade is recessed into the plot to enable the arrangement of a front garden which was compulsory at that time. The façade's plasticity is original and has a three-part structure. The façade of the building’s right part, adjacent to the older building of the former Polish Academic House (Hertsena street 7), is at the same level with the building frontage line, while the others are recessed into the plot. Vertically, the house is also designed in an original way as the ground and fifth floors are recessed into the main plane. This demonstrates the architect's mastery, as well as the fact that the city building administration attached great importance to the aesthetics of façades and strictly controlled architectural projects.

In the building's design, the whole range of the techniques proper to the European architecture of that time was used: ribbon windows (floors 2-4), round porthole windows, columns (floors 1 and 5). All these elements have much in common with postulates declared by Le Corbusier, a famous modernist architect, in his so-called 'Five Points.'

An interesting feature of the house is the fact that a repair shop, located today on the ground floor, can be seen in the design drawings.