It was designed by Finnish architects F. A. Sjöström and Josef Stenbäck, and was completed in 1886.

[1] "Kuopio City Hall should not be built on the edge of a market square in a remote place far from the center.

The city will never grow so big," it was stated and believed in 1880 in Kuopio,[2] however, the building was still erected there.

At that time, e.g. air conditioning, new room arrangements and the restoration of interior paintings.

The words are from A. Oksanen's poem Revealed in Porthan's Statue (Porthanin kuvapatsaan paljastettua).

The basement is used for storage and archives, and there is a conference room with auxiliary facilities built in the attic in the 1980s.