The Government Palace (Finnish: Valtioneuvoston linna, Swedish: Statsrådsborgen) is the executive office building of the Council of State of Finland.

The Hallituskatu side was not closed off until several decades later with a courtyard annex added in 1860 to house the Senate printing press.

The Government Palace acquired its present appearance between 1916 and 1917 with the heightening of the Ritarikatu wing.

[4] In addition to the organs of the Senate itself, the Senate building was in the early years also home to a wide range of other important public agencies and offices, including the predecessor of the Bank of Finland, Postal Directorate, Customs Board and National Archives.

[4] In 1904 Eugen Schauman shot Governor-General of Finland Nikolai Bobrikov in the second floor level of the staircase of the building.