The Old Town Hall stands on Old Town Square in Prague. In 1338, with permission from John of Luxembourg, the Old Town councillors bought a patrician house from the Volflin family. The burghers extended it westward and completed the tower in 1364. The article names no original builder. It cites Gothic, Renaissance, Neo-Renaissance, Neo-Gothic, Baroque and Empire elements, plus a Romanesque hall.
Hussite unrest from 1419 to 1434 interrupted construction, and late 15th-century work added the east wing and a net-vaulted council chamber. Antonín Baum rebuilt the Mikeš house in a Neo-Renaissance style in 1879 and 1880. The astronomical clock, completed in 1410 by Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel, is its most famous feature.
A fire in May 1945 during the Prague uprising destroyed the east and north wings and the chapel apart from its portal. Pavel Janák restored the building from 1936 to 1938. The article gives no hours or prices.
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