Vul. Konopnytskoi, 8 – residential building

Almost till the late 19^th century the territory near the Evangelical prayer house, where this townhouse was built later, was occupied by gardens. In 1880 the plot was purchased by the family of count Russocki: Włodzimierz Russocki, a known Polish public and political figure, and his wife, Izabela Russocka, née Dunin-Borkowska. It was there, closer to Zelena street, that they had a palace built for themselves. This brick building was H-shaped in plan; it can be seen on the 1890 map of Lviv. Aside, an outbuilding was located, and there was a garden in the back part of the area, closer to what is now Levytskoho street where the Pasika stream was still open at that time. The plot's address was Zelena street 13 or conscription number 913 ¼.

However, already in the first decade of the 20^th century, after the death of the Russockis, a new street was to be built up where their plot was situated. The project was designed by famous Lviv architects: Ferdynand Kassler, Józef Awin, and Stanisław Olszewski. The new street, named after Maria Konopnicka, a famous Polish writer, had a fairly unusual configuration as small cours d'honneur were to be arranged in its center on both sides, in particular, to increase the amount of gardening. A somewhat similar approach was used in Lviv by Jan Lewiński (Ivan Levynskyi) when the latter designed Asnyka (now Bohomoltsia) street in 1904 and a residential complex on Gliniańska (now Dontsova) street 8-10 in 1905.

Konopnickiej street, planned in 1911, was divided into 16 parcels. In 1912-1914 the western part of the street was built up and one house was also constructed on the eastern side. Two more houses were built in the interwar period, but the street has never been built up completely.

The plot number 8 was purchased by Włodzimierz Sieradzki, a physician and a professor of the Jan Kazimierz University. In 1911 he commissioned Stanisław Olszewski, a licensed builder, to design a townhouse. The project was submitted to the Magistrate in August of that same year and was approved in September (DALO 2/2/5067:2). In November some amendments to the project were approved, under which a room for the caretaker was to be arranged on the semi-basement floor (DALO 2/2/5067:1). In November of 1912 moving into the house was authorized and a slightly modified design of its main façade was approved. However, the owner was bound to replace 12 cm high steps in the dark basement corridor with a ramp (DALO 2/2/5067:6-7).