The rental house located on Nistrului Drive no. 2 was built between 1911 and 1912. It belonged to the city engineer Károly Kiss, the brother-in-law of the famous László Székely, Timisoara's senior architect between 1903-1922. Before the construction of this building, Károly Kiss lived in an apartment house on Anton Pann street (formerly Pava utca) in Fabric, where his wife Éva managed a beauty salon for women.
The four buildings that today form the block between Splaiul Nistrului, Profesor Dionisie Linţia Street and the Boulevard “3 August 1919” -- that is the Neptun Baths Apartment Building (formerly known as Hungaria Apartment Building or Nobel Apartment Building), the Apartment House of Székely’s Widow, Károly Kiss’ Apartment House and a fourth apartment building with no known name -- were all designed by László Székely in Viennese Secession style, and were erected on the site of the former Imperial Wood Yard in Fabric, abolished in 1906.