In the interwar period, the Czechoslovak state was intensively concerned with issues of social care and decent housing for the poorest segments of the population, including a system of various financial incentives for municipalities. Bystřice pod Hostýnem also had the ambition to solve this problem, and in 1924 it approached architect Bohuslav Fuchs, who had already completed two significant projects in the municipality, with the assignment of a project for a “poor asylum”.

The first two variants of the design, intended for the corner of Rusavská and Hostýnská streets, were surprisingly generous. Fuchs applied his expressive repertoire of the time in them – a combination of flush brickwork and smooth plaster, strong horizontal and vertical divisions and monumental work with material. However, the city decided to reduce the construction costs, which meant a fundamental turnaround for the prepared project. At the same time, it was decided to move the building to another plot, to the end of today's Sušilova Street. The architect therefore reworked the project for the third time into a significantly more economical form. The resulting implementation is sober and rational, its dominant aesthetic and functional element being the staircase corner projection made of flush bricks with a continuous window. The other facades are smoothly plastered and divided by flush brickwork.

The building, which retains its original charter, was adapted in later years for the needs of the elementary school, which is still located there today.