The house At the White Peacock on Celetná Street near Old Town Square was heavily damaged as part of the targetted attacks on the square and its close vicinity during the May Uprising. The adjacent building At the Vulture (no. 563/I) was also damaged. Only the late Baroque facade, which came from the renovation of the building after 1750, remained from the house At the White Peacock. The house, most likely standing on the site of three medieval houses, was rebuilt again in 1949.RB [Růžena Baťková], čp. 557/I, in: Pavel Vlček a kol., Umělecké památky Prahy. Staré Město, Josefov, Academia, Praha, 1996, pp. 374–375.

Josef Sudek's photographs from the neighbourhood of Old Town Square rarely capture the reactions of people and the theatrical aspect of the whole situation. People came to look at the destruction of the war, the houses that suddenly turned into backdrops.

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Celetná 557/10, Prague 1