[2] Initially, the city court held its hearings in a town hall in the neighborhood Rådstugan [sv] (now Gamla stan) between Stortorget and the Storkyrkan and the southern cemetery.

Between the buildings a walkway was constructed, called rådstugugången, which led from the old town hall over to the new courtroom in the neighboring house.

A third courtroom was added after another fire in 1407, and at the end of the 1570s the building underwent several extensive repairs, both externally and internally.

[2] In 1724, the city court bought a fourth neighboring property, the so-called Kanngjutarehuset at Stortorget.

In 1903, an architectural competition was announced where the competitors would submit proposals for the design of the town hall.

[2] Östberg was finished with the sketches the following year, but then a motion was presented in the city council (stadsfullmäktige) which instead wanted to locate the new town hall in neighborhood of Fruktkorgenon Kungsholmen.

[3] In 1908, the city council finally decided that the new town hall would be located on Kungsholmen, and the idea of building on site of Eldkvarn was abandoned.

The construction work took place during the first half of the 1910s (1912–1915), and in the autumn of 1915 the new Stockholm Court House in National Romantic style at Scheelegatan [sv] was inaugurated.

[3] From the end of the 1940s, the public sector, and thus the municipalities, had been given more and more tasks: the education in Sweden had been expanded, social care and housing construction as well, all technical services in the form of electricity, sewer and water.