At the beginning of the 19th century, Henryk Bonnet, a French-born clerk who served as the State Councillor and the judge in the district court of Warsaw, had bought an area around current Malczewskiego Street, establishing there a small settlement of Henryków, originally, only inhabited by French population.

[6] In 1900, the palace was inherited by nobleman August Potocki, who, while never living there himself, had accommodated there the less wealthy members of his family.

[7][6] After the First World War, the palace housed a children's hospital, and later accommodation for the officers of the Polish Armed Forces.

[6] During the Second World War, in the place was located the kitchen on the Central Welfare Council, a charity helping impoverished and people affected by the ongoing conflict.

During the Second World War, the upper floor and the roof of the building were damaged and the palace had burned down in 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising.