U Sladkých House | On the corner of Husova Street, Jilská Street and Perštýn, there is a rather extensive object built in Gothic style in place of a Romanesque estate. Remains of Romanesque Greek masonry were discovered here. Today, the house is early-Baroque with Renaissance front. In the 2nd half of the 17th century, the house got its Baroque facade decorated with a statue of St. Jude. There is a low prismatic tower, or a roof pavilion, above the middle tract. In the past, there used to be one of Prague’s many breweries here, and during the search, three wells were discovered. In 1523, the house was acquired by Jan Sladký of Peclinovec, and his family owned the house until the Battle of Bílá hora. In the mid-19th century, there used to be a café named Čáslavského, later U Sokola, where poets from the group around Máj (May Almanac) would meet, like Jan Neruda, Vítězslav Hálek, Adolf Heyduk and Karel Jaromír Erben. The local brewery was also owned by a rich Prague family of Knittl, the member of which, famous art benefactor Emanuel Knittl was the father of Ema Destinnová. In the direction of the Husova Street, there is a memorable corner stone partially rising from the building, about 600 years old, which used to serve as a protection of the house’s corner from the wheels of the carriages. There used to be more corner stones like this in Prague in the past, some of them having a cavern at the top filled with water, so that the torches could be extinguished when entering the house from the street.The house was restored in the beginning of the 1960s after a constructionally-historical exploration.
