The building is located in the famous merchant street, in the vicinity of the center of Niš. It was erected in 1927, when Niš celebrated half a century of freedom from Turkish rule. The architect in charge of the design is unknown.

This building was owned by a trader in agricultural products, and later tobacco, Viden Živković, who was one of the riches citizens of Niš before WWII.

The house retains its original form, has two shops at the ground level, and a large residential area on the upper floor, with a corner tower to which balconies are connected on both the left and the right side. The copious façade decoration and garret roof fully correspond with the European traditionalist style.

The renovated façade, with no major alterations, still testifies to the beauty of this residential-office building and the wealth of its owner. The original function of the building remains unchanged.

The house on the corner of Cara Dušana and Pop Luke Lazarevića streets belonged to the famous Niš bakery owner Aleksandar Mita Jančić, a descendant of an old family of bakers, which had been around since the Turkish era of Niš. The house was built in 1927, and the architect of the house is not known.

The building has three shops on the ground level, which changed owners, but not their basic function. The residential area on the upper floor has lavish floral and geometrical ornaments on the façade and a corner tower which originally rose above the main entrance of the building. Another, smaller tower, again with a tin sheet roof, was built on the other side of the house, facing Dušanova Street. In terms of style, the house belongs to the European traditionalist architecture of the 1930’s. At the time of construction, this house, and the house of Viden Živković, represented the first large one-story houses in the merchant street, with ground-level shops. Together with their projecting corner towers, placed one opposite the other, they form a “gate” of a kind in Cara Dušana Street.

This building still retains its identical designed function.