Right up to his death in 1890, František Emanuel Welz, a remarkable thinker and native of nearby Litomyšl, inhabited what is today the Max Švábinský Cottage (No. 50), originally belonging to the so-called Pecháček Farm. In 1891, the Prague railway worker Rudolf Vejrych Sr. made use of the disused building as a summer residence for his family of six. At the turn of the century, the family expanded with the addition of the wife of son Karel (a piano virtuoso) and the husband of daughter Ely, namely Max Švábinský (their wedding took place in June 1900, in Litomyšl). Karel Vejrych extended the building in 1900 in order to accommodate the increased number of inhabitants of the cottage. At the same time, Švábinský decorated the building's new gable, incorporating two windows, with a scene entitled Saint Wenceslas Receiving Gifts (also Saint Wenceslas Acknowledges the Respect of the People). In his work he was assisted by the future master painters Rudolf Vejrych (the railway worker's second son) and Otakar Vanáč. The oil painting, executed in pleasant brown tones (pozzuola, the halo around the prince's head was allegedly executed in real gold), was applied to the lighter base layer of the vertical boarding. The painting was an exceptional case within the context of the artists work, as it was created in one day – the 30th of July, 1990, and also because the artist had already had the figures basically prepared beforehand thanks to his work on the foyer of Zemská Banka in Prague. Throughout the subsequent years, the artwork was restored several times (most recently by Jiří Látal in 2011) and as a result, was subjected to certain colour changes. The last private owner of the building was Zuzana Švábinská (daughter of Rudolf Vejrych, Max Švábinský's adopted daughter) who, shortly before her death in 2004, bequeathed it to the town of Česká Třebová, which subsequently entrusted the Municipal Museum with its running.
The so-called Pecháček Farm (No. 12), dating back to 1807 and named after the original owners, is still in private hands, and was also extended by Karel Vejrych. He bought the building in 1900 and, in 1910, added two large rooms to the original one. Rudolf Vejrych decorated the exterior plaster of the back, windowless, room with a shallow sgraffito frieze (currently obscured by a veranda), entitled Zahradničci (Little Gardeners), depicting cute putti hard at work in the garden. Between the 20th and 21st of August 1910, Max Švábinský decorated the gable of the annexe with a sgraffito rendering entitled Harvest Maid (also Woman with Scythe and Infant) portraying the investor's wife and youngest daughter. This was the artist's first and last sgraffito artwork.
