Lviv first skyscraper, whose owner was the richest businessman Jonah Shpreher Lviv. House then impressed his monumental and caused much controversy. After Starting Spring 1912, the old house of Prince Karl Poninskoho with renowned cafe "monopolies" in the summer of that year began construction work, which led F. Kasler, together with the architect Julian Cybulski. In February 1913 City Council approved plans for the facade. In four years of war construction was frozen, and only in August 1918 Shpreher renewed application for permission to budivnyttstvo. In 1921 the building was finally completed. It consisted of six floors and ended with a large mansard roof turrets. In the prevailing academic style buildings variations: half columns and pilasters of various sizes, decorative cornices and pediment intermediate. However, typical of modernist works Kaslera parabolic shape is the lower and upper windows and an asymmetrical bend the top rails. Echo Secession significant relief on the pylons in the portal - a whimsical dragon lizard, probably executed by sculptor Zygmunt Kurchynskym in 1913-1914 biennium