[1] Previously on this site, stood the villa of Georg Minde-Pouet (1871-1950), first director of the Provincial and Municipal Public Library[2] in Bydgoszcz.

[4] In the 1910s, it housed on the ground floor the office and workshop of Carl August Franke, a chemist and owner of the factory on Mill Island.

[6] In the 1940s, the tenement house was rebuilt according to original designs of Alfred Schleusener,[3] and after World War II it went through renovation until 1974, when happened the official visit to the city of Edward Gierek, the 1st secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party.

Once the renovation completed, the editors of the Bydgoszcz branch of "Gazeta Wyborcza", which has its headquarters in the building, organized the first "Feast of Gdańska Street" (Polish: Święto Ulicy Gdańskiej).

The pharmacy "Central" still retains its historic pharmaceutical instruments, including weights, glass eye bath, bottle opener and mortar.