The Cetto House at Wagemannstraße 5-7 is the oldest surviving Baroque residential and commercial building in Wiesbaden. It was built in 1728 by Martin Cetto, as the stonemason's mark "MC", which is still visible today, suggests. The Cetto family, a merchant family, had immigrated from northern Italy at a time when Wiesbaden was prospering economically thanks to the policies of Prince Georg August Samuel zu Nassau-Idstein. Wagemannstraße, where the family settled, was originally a shopping and business street, a suitable environment for merchants like the Cettos.

In 1818, the Scholz family acquired the Cetto house. Josef Scholz (1768-1813), who came from Upper Silesia, had founded a paper and stationery business with a quill factory in Wiesbaden in 1793. In 1820, a publishing house with a print shop was added to the company in the Cetto House. In 1824, Josef's daughter Katharina Adelburg (1799-1872) married the pharmacist Marsil Gottfried Ignatz Glaser († 1860), who ran a "material goods store". The house remained in the Glaser family until 1884. After that, it housed a wide variety of stores and establishments. It was a bookshop, pet shop, antique store and much more.