The Baroque Revival style-building from 1917 was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 2013.

In 1898, the Social Democratic group in Copenhagen City Council, headed by later mayor Jens Jensen, proposed the construction of a series of municipal bath houses in the city's working-class neighbourhoods.

Many working-class families, living in overcrowded tenements, had no place to bathe.

[2] The building was decommissioned when private bath rooms became common later in the century.

[1] Designed in the then-popular Baroque Revival style, Sjællandsgade Public Baths are constructed in red brick with symmetrically placed windows, a hipped red tile roof and lesenes at the corners.