The building stands on the eastern side of Gdańska street and is adjacent to the neo-baroque tenement at 1 Freedom Square, from architect Józef Święcicki.

Initially located at 159 Danziger Straße, the first registered landlord was a wood merchant, ßulvermacher Samuel, in the early 1870s.

[4] After the end of World War II, the tenement housed the State Pedagogical Secondary School for a year, before moving back to 3 Seminaryjna Street on September 1, 1946.

In 1883, the building was raised to its current size: it has been designed by architect Carl Stampehl who introduced the three-sided bay windows.

The same architect, one year earlier (1909), supervised the overhaul of the tenement at 5 Gdańska street In the 1930s, the building housed the pastry and coffee shop "Italia" owned by Henry Kocięcki,[8] and during communist period a restaurant, "Rybna" ("Fish").