Josip Slade Šilović from Trogir, creator of the primary urban plan of the old Royal Capital, made an architectural design of the building of the Austro-Hungarian Embassy. Construction began in 1896, first with the purchase of land, than with building the facility itself from 1897-1899. There is also a Catholic church directly adjacent to the building. The building has served its diplomatic purpose until 1914. Between the wars, there was the command of the Zeta Division (“Divizija” building). After the war, it was ceded for use to schools, and then to the Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments, which has been located there since 1983, when the conservation and restoration works were completed. Today, the work of the Faculty of Montenegrin Language and Literature is organized in it. The building is a II category cultural monument .