The building was constructed after a major fire in the town in 1762 as a grand townhouse with brewing rights. Documented owners include the castle gardener Jakob Hiller, serving under the then owner of the Uherský Ostroh estate, Josef Václav of Liechtenstein, and the first historically known mayor of the town, Franz Bohuninowski. Three priests emerged from the Hiller family – Jan (b. 1756), Josef (b. 1758) and grandson Alfons, who is mentioned in 1806 as an alumnus of the Brno seminary. The Christian legacy of the family is probably also reflected in the architectural decoration of the house, specifically in two statuettes on the building's facade. The ground floor of the house served for generations as a lively urban ground floor – with small craft workshops and shops: a flour merchant, a butcher's shop, a Baťa shoe repair and shop, a confectionery and the well-known barbershop of Zdeněk Galuška in the adjacent smaller building.
The design reflects the rich history of the building and works with the manifestation of this content richness – spatio-temporal diversity in form and materiality. We start from the current state of the building as a momentary imprint of its development and history in time. Tangible, existing values and elements are preserved and combined with both period elements and contrasting new forms, especially within the interior. These are contemporary transcriptions of the spatial geometry elements of the current building, the content spirit of the place and morphological and aesthetic references to the life and work of Zdeněk Galuška – Slovácko sa nesúdí.
