The first idea to build a dormitory for the veterans of the war dates back to 1925; however, the construction only started in 1934. In 1922, the Committee for the Welfare of Lithuanian War Veterans bought a plot of land from a citizen, and they gave the duty to the famous architect Feliksas Vizbaras to design the building; who started to prepare the projects immediately, and in 1925 the project was approved by the Kaunas City Building Commission. For the façade of the building, it was decided to implement decorative elements and a monumental sculpture of Vytis in a historicist style. This idea is an important benchmark in the history of Lithuanian architecture since it is one of the most exciting attempts to give architecture a Lithuanian character. However, neither sculpture nor decorations were used while constructing the building.

There has been nearly ten years delay for the construction due to the costs of the structure; however, the dormitory was erected in 1935, next to the plot of the Agricultural Bank, which was already built at the time. In the process of the construction, the authors of the project, Colonel Engineer Jonas Acus Acukas (Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Ministry of National Defence) and Engineer Jonas Krishchiukaitis (the Military Apartments Division) gave it a much more restrained and at the same time more economical, appearance. Furthermore, they even obtained some of the bricks from the demolition of the old building of the Military Museum.

The four-storey building has eight apartments located around a central staircase which is a characteristic example of Kaunas modernism. The general composition of the front façade is symmetrical, with an emphasis on the entrance, which is at the middle axis of the façade. The right and left axis of the front façade is relatively lower than the middle axis, which gives a representative touch to the entrance. At the left and right axis, there are six balconies in total with horizontal metal bars. The courtyard façade is much more austere compared to the front façade. The passage to the backyard is achieved under the balconies on the right axis.