Wincenty Ferreriusz Pol (1807-1872) was born in the tenement house at Grodzka street number 7. He was a great patriot, a participant of the November Uprising honoured with the Virtuti Militari Order. As a poet he published a number of works, including a collection of poems "Song of the Our Land" (1843). He was also a professor at the Jagiellonian University in the first department of Geography in the Polish territories, as well as the forerunner of sightseeing in Poland and a great enthusiast of his homeland (especially the mountains, from the Tatra to the Eastern Carpathians.

The residents of Lublin appreciated his patriotic and civic conduct by donating to him in 1860 a former family manor house from a small farmstead near Lublin known as Firlejowszczyzna. In the years 1969-1972 the mansion was moved to Kalinowszczyzna Street 13 and currently is a seat of the Wincenty Pol Museum – a branch of the Lublin Museum.