Johann Sigmund Deybel designed the Sapieha Palace in Warsaw for Jan Fryderyk Sapieha, Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It was built from 1731 to 1746 as a French-style city palace, a Rococo hôtel particulier. It has a five-axis main building and two outbuildings between the palace and the street. A one-story outbuilding was connected in 1741 and 1742, and another wing was added from 1771 to 1790.
In 1818 to 1820 it was converted into the Sapieha Barracks for army use, with a neoclassical remodeling by Wilhelm Henryk Minter. During the November Uprising of 1830 and 1831 it housed the 4th Infantry Regiment.
German occupying forces destroyed it in 1944, and Maria Zachwatowiczowa rebuilt it in the 1950s. It houses the Environmental Protection School Complex and is a Historic Monument of Poland.
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