While the main axis of downtown Bydgoszcz (Polish: Śródmieście), Gdańska Street, grew quickly after 1835, it took more time for side areas to develop as well.

[3] Through history, the street bore the following names: Actual namesake comes from Piotr Skarga (1536–1612), a Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer, polemicist, and leading figure of the Counter-Reformation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Early 1870s[1] Eclecticism The house at then Hoffmann straße 13 was initially the villa for the general commanding the 7th Infantry Brigade billeted in Bromberg, today in Pomorska Street.

[6] In the 1920s, the tenement was inhabited by displaced Poles that left former eastern territories, or Kresy, as a consequence of the Peace of Riga: Maria Górska and her family.

[7] Today, the edifice houses the Regional Inspectorate for the Protection of the Environment (Polish: Wojewódzki Inspektorat Ochrony Środowiska w Bydgoszczy).

The facade on Piotra Skargi Street shows delicate decoration on the second floor: cartouches displaying human figure, lintels supported by corbels.

Registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, Reg.A/263/1, May 28, 1991[9] 1886, by Józef Swiecicki and Anton Hoffmann[10] Neo-Baroque The villa was designed and built in 1886 for a well-known Bydgoszcz doctor, Hugo Bille.

[12] In 1910, it was owned by a pensioner Mr Dentler, who had as tenant Julius Von Rogowski, the General Commanding the 4th Artillerie Brigade in Bromberg.

The gate on Piotra Skargi street displays a nice semicircle transom light and delicate carved motifs.

The right-side facade displays a mural painting, Śniadanie Mistrzów (English: Breakfast of Champions) realized by three local artists, Spectrum, Etam and Pain.

On the other hand, the elevation on Mikołaj Rej street reveals more decorative features with vegetal ornaments and a stylized festoon topped by an oeil-de-boeuf.

[31] The elevation has neoclassical ornamentation: triangular pediments at first floor windows, corbel table at the top, and shed dormer on the gable.

[33] From 1927 to 1938,[34] the premises housed the Municipal Institute of Music (Polish: Miejski Instytut Muzyczny), before it moved to 71 Gdańska Street.