Beside St. Catherine's church is an ensemble of buildings. It's the Benedictine convent, with several small inner courtyards where the Catholic priest Juozas Stakauskas hid Jews during the Second World War. In front of the convent is a square with a bust of the composer Stanislaw Moniuszko. The largest Historicist style building on number 39, across from the square is the Vilnius Teachers' House.

The first Lithuanian daily, Vilniaus zinios (Vilnius News), came from this was building between 1904 and 1906. Walking to Zaliasis Tiltas one can see the remains of another Radziwill estate on number 22. The magnate Janusz Radziwill built this house, renowned for its art collections, in the beginning of the 17th century. After the 1655-1661 war with Moscow the buildings stayed empty.

The Lithuanian Museum of Art

The Lithuanian Museum of Art took over the reconstructed western wing of the estate in 1984. During the Soviet occupation the poet and Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Brodsky used to visit friends across from the estate. There was a Jewish theater at Liejyklos Street 4 in the first half of the 20th century. A a memorial plaque marks the site where Theodor Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement, met with the Vilnius Jewish community in 1903.

Several other historicist style buildings line Vilniaus Street before it reaches the area where new commercial venues take over. The Old Town ends at the junction with Gedimino Prospektas.