An imposing tenement house topped by a statue of King Władysław Jagiełło is located in the north-western corner of the Jagiellońska and Szwedzka Streets. This is where the Tourist Information Centre can be found. Erected in 1905–1906 for Kasa Zaliczkowa (The Advance Fund), the building was designed with a bevelled corner prepared for the placing of the statue of Władysław Jagiełło. A plaque commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald was placed below the statue in 1910. In 1940, German authorities ordered the king's statue to be destroyed but, after its removal from the pedestal, employees from the Advance Fund cut the sandstone statue into pieces and hid it in the basement of the building. The statue was officially returned to its former location in 1945. The Jagiellońska Street where the building stands is a part of the former Hungarian route passing through the town and its representative arterial road. It got its name in 1885. Once lined with numerous single-storey houses, it was later developed with state buildings and two- and three-storey townhouses with eclectic, Art Nouveau and modernist facades.