Nizhne-Pokrovskaya Street is one of the oldest streets in Polotsk. Historical sources confirm its existence already in the second half of the 11th — beginning of the 12th century. From the 13th century the street was densely populated, served as one of the main streets in the city, it was crossed by the Dvina River to the city markets, churches, synagogues, Catholic and Orthodox monasteries were located on it, the richest and most influential citizens lived there.
The first known name of this street was Velikaya Street. In the last quarter of the 18th century (in connection with the construction of St. Pokrovskaya Church) it was renamed into Nizhne-Pokrovskaya Street, in 1919 — into Lenin Street, and in 2008 the street again returned the name Nizhne-Pokrovskaya. It received its current direction in accordance with the classicist plan of Polotsk developed and approved in the late 18th century, which gave the layout of the historical center of the city the features of regularity.
House No. 19 on Nizhne-Pokrovskaya Street was erected in the late 19th — early 20th centuries. Modern researchers know that in the 12th — 13th centuries the territory of the existing house was already part of the system of active construction of Nizhne-Pokrovskaya Street, but today in this place archaeologists managed to find the remains of buildings dated no earlier than the 18th — the first half of the 19th centuries.
Cartographic materials of the beginning — middle of the 19th century testify to the fact that on the site of the modern house No. 19 there were wooden residential buildings, which successively replaced each other. At the beginning of the XX century a one-storey brick house was erected, which partially incorporated the foundations of buildings of the 17th-18th centuries. There is information that the building housed a Jewish school in the pre-revolutionary period.
After the October Revolution and until the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the house was used as a dwelling. After the liberation of Polotsk in 1944, the miraculously survived building underwent significant changes: additions were made, part of the windows of the western and northern facades were covered or cut in other places, the location of the central entrance was changed.
During the Soviet times the house was used as a residential building, and since the early 2000s it has been functioning as an administrative building of OJSC "Otdelochnik-28".
House No. 19 is a beautiful monument to the development of Nizhne-Pokrovskaya St. of the late 19th — early 20th century.