Faust's house or Mladota's Palace is an essentially Gothic building, its present appearance dates from the period around 1820.RB [Růžena Baťková], čp. 502/II, in: Růžena Baťková a kol., Umělecké památky Prahy. Nové Město, Vyšehrad, Vinohrady, Academia, Praha, 1998, pp. 362–363. The owners of the house, among others, included the English alchemist and mystic Edward Kelley and the Czech nobleman Josef Mladota of Solopysky, who was interested in physics and chemistry. It was these interests of the owners that prompted the creation of the Faustian legend connected with the house. In 1902 the General Hospital purchased the palace and three years later a large hospital pharmacy was placed there, which is still operating today.Josef Hrubeš – Eva Hrubešová, Pražské domy vyprávějí…, Nakladatelství Orion, Roztoky u Prahy, [1995], s. 135; RB [Růžena Baťková], čp. 502/II, in: Růžena Baťková a kol., Umělecké památky Prahy. Nové Město, Vyšehrad, Vinohrady, Academia, Praha, 1998, pp. 362–363.

The house was damaged by several bombs on 14 February 1945. An incendiary bomb hit the roof, fell through the third and second floor and caused a large fire; thanks to the devotion and quick response of the pharmacy staff the building was saved.Josef Hrubeš – Eva Hrubešová, Pražské domy vyprávějí …, Nakladatelství Orion, Roztoky u Prahy, [1995], p. 135. In the photograph, Josef Sudek captured the ruins of the damaged garden wall on Vyšehradská Street.