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Inspired by the frontispiece of the last issue of Acta Mozartiana, this essay provides information about the last house Mozart inhabited, the so-called Kleines Kaiserhaus in the Rauhensteingasse. Aided by precise archival studies, numerous errors pervading the pertinent literature can now be corrected. The five-storey building, in which Mozart died, probably was demolished and completely rebuilt as early as the 1790s, but latest by 1806. Thus the house that was drawn by Lyser and demolished in 1847 shares only the site of Mozart's last abode. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]