Grand Hotel is the most known example of monumental historicist architecture. The building was built by the big landowner Paunović as a hotel, according to the plans by the famous architect Vladimir Nikolić, from 1895-1897. Grand Hotel offered hospitality services and had a theatre hall as well. The hotel had been leased until 1919 when it was sold to a new owner, Miša Gotfrid. At that time the Labour Movement was gaining momentum in Vukovar and the workers wanted to build a workers’ hall. Since the Grand Hotel was offered for sale again in 1919, the workers had formed the Cooperative Workers’ Hall and began to raise funds by selling the cooperative’s shares; they bought the Grand Hotel and turned it into a Workers’ Hall. It is where the 2nd Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia was held in 1920.