The image captures Hetmansky Street (now Prospect Svobody). In the foreground stands the beginning of the Hetman's Ramparts, the central pedestrian boulevard of Lviv.

On the right, Hetmansky Street is lined by buildings 10, 12, and 14, built around the middle of the 19th century. On the first floor of building 10, the first of the buildings, there is a wooden entryway into Sokal & Liliien banking house, established in 1860. The Avansov Bank would be built on its site in 1898 according to the project of architect Ippolit Sliwinsky.

In 1886, Sokal & Liliien banking house bought building 12. The new owners submitted a request every year concerning the construction of a new building. Jan Muller's candy store is located on the first floor. A new building was constructed in 1909 by Mikhal Uliam's architectural bureau. This was the first 5-story building in Lviv.

14 Hetmansky Street, nicknamed "The House with Four Facades," was built in 1828-29 by the design of Mateo Brezani for the merchant Karol Hartman. Since the 1830s, this building contained the "Viennese Coffee House," changing owners and appearance, but not the name. In 1880, the store was once more renovated, significantly changing its interior. In 1902-1903, under the order of the new cafe owner, industrialist Karol Chudzhak, artists Yu. Krupsky, and F. Zaikhovsky were to decorate "Viennese" in the fashionable Art Nouveau style of the early 20th century. In 1903, an iron structure of a summer pavilion was added to the coffee house from the side of St. Spirit Square, over the years it turned into a brick building with a terrace (In the 1950s the summer pavilion of Jan Wolf's confectionary was located here).

Throughout the decades of its existence, the cafe remained the favorite place of entertainment for the Lviv public.