Like the Little Guild, this house, known as the Big Guild, belonged to merchant Luka Mamonich in the 16th century. He sold the building in 1606 and it was co-owned by different people up until mid-1700’s. The building was used for storage, shops, pubs, brewery and workshops. Photographer Adolf Struniewicz had a studio in this house in the late 1800’s–early 1900’s. Artist Juozapas Kamarauskas, painter of Vilnius architecture, spent the final years of his life here. Severely destroyed during the WWII, the building was torn down and a contemporary structure designed by Gediminas Baravykas was built in its place in 1975. Soon after that, cinema Maskva was opened in the new building, renamed as Helios after the reinstitution of independence. The cinema operated until 2000.

JUOZAPAS KAMARAUSKAS (1874–1946)
Artist, architect, engineer. In 1892–1897 studied at Vilnius Drawing School, the Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing and the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. In 1897–1922, worked as an engineer in different construction firms. In 1922, returned to Vilnius, where he restored and reproduced paintings, drafted construction projects and Vilnius city plans, designed posters, postal marks and monetary bills. In 1939, began working as an engineer–architect, monument protection officer. Collaborated with educational and cultural enterprises. From 1943 till his death, he lived in the so-called Big Guild house on Didžioji street (current 28 Didžioji st.). He drew landscapes of Vilnius, Kaunas, Grodno, Trakai and other cities and towns as well as architectural monuments. His legacy consists of around 4000 graphic works and paintings. One of his major works is the blueprints and drawings of 40 Vilnius Old Town streets he did in 1944–1945.