The existent Štorch's House today, adjacent to the House at the Stone Lamb (no. 551/I), was built in 1897 on the site of a Gothic house called At the Stone Virgin Mary. The design for the new house was made by Friedrich Ohmann and it was built by the builder František Tichna for the publisher Alexandr Štorch. To preserve the historical character of the square the house was built in an historic Neo-Gothic style. Nowadays, the house is especially praised for this reason. The facade is decorated with coloured sgraffito and frescos after drawings by Mikoláš Aleš. The texts are mainly references to Štorch's publishing house, bookshop and antiquarian bookshop. The facade includes a bay window designed by Ohmann after the original bay on the previous house.PV [Pavel Vlček], čp. 552/I, in: Pavel Vlček a kol., Umělecké památky Prahy. Staré Město, Josefov, Academia, Praha, 1996, pp. 369–370.

After the damage caused by the May Uprising (as a result of shelling with ignited munitions, the house caught on fire on 7 May)http://www.ahmp.cz/povstani/ (accessed 17 July 2017). , the architect Josef Prskavec renovated the house in 1948. Josef Sudek photographed the house as a part of his documentation of the damage and various events held on Old Town Square in 1945, together with the adjacent buildings.

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Old Town Square 552/16, Prague 1