From the 2010s through 2022, the building located at Sumska Street, 43 housed the Lviv Chocolate Workshop.

Oleksander Leibfreid dates the house to the early 20th century, without specifying a year, and believes that the architect M. Roitenberg designed it. According to the 1909 list of homeowners, the house was owned by the burgher Stepan Zakharovich Kislakov.

In the early 1920s, the building housed the American Relief Administration (an American charitable organization that provided aid to the starving people of Ukraine from 1919 to 1923)

A commemorative plaque installed in 2016 as part of “Germany Week” states that the building housed the German consulate in 1912.

Until recently, it was a faded white, but now the facade has taken on a natural, non-acidic hue with hints of light brown.

What is simply unthinkable in Kharkiv, however, is restoring the original window frames design. There is no certainty that the frames were 100% like the original, but typically in Kharkiv, when old buildings are converted into cafes and retail or office spaces, single-pane windows are installed—without any frames at all.

The building was damaged in a Russian missile strike on March 2, 2022, and lost some of its windows. The Chocolate House sustained another significant damage in a strike by a Russian “Shahed” drone on December 31, 2023.