The house on the corner of Old Town Square and Pařížská Street, across from St Nicholas Church, known as Schier's House, was built in 1896–1897. A Baroque house with a facade in the style of Dientzenhofer (formerly no. 934/I), and the palace of the Old Town hetman, Rudolf of Lisov (Lissau), built by Jan Santini-Aichl stood on this site until the turn of the 20th century. Both buildings were among the first victims of the urban renewal of Old Town. In 1895 the building of an apartment house for the chamber councillor Franz Schier was begun on the site.

The Kinsky (Golz-Kinsky) Palace, dominating the northeastern side of Old Town Square, is a work attributed to the late Baroque architect Anselmo Lurago from 1755–1765 (an earlier hypothesis about the participation of Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer has been discredited).PV [Pavel Vlček], čp. 606/I, in: Pavel Vlček a kol., Umělecké památky Prahy. Staré Město, Josefov, Academia, Praha, 1996, p. 410. The palace was built for Earl Johann Ernst Golz, but soon after it was finished Franz Oldrich Kinsky bought it.

Four houses on Old Town Square west from Železná Street, and closed off to the south by the narrow Kožná Street, burnt down during the May Uprising. House no. 483–484/I, where the houses At the Golden Camel and At the Golden Unicorn used to stand, is now a late Neo-Classical building from 1858 after plans by Jan Bělský.PV [Pavel Vlček], čp. 483/I a čp. 484/I, in: Pavel Vlček a kol., Umělecké památky Prahy. Staré Město, Josefov, Academia, Praha, 1996, p. 335. On the right stands house no.

The existent Štorch's House today, adjacent to the House at the Stone Lamb (no. 551/I), was built in 1897 on the site of a Gothic house called At the Stone Virgin Mary. The design for the new house was made by Friedrich Ohmann and it was built by the builder František Tichna for the publisher Alexandr Štorch. To preserve the historical character of the square the house was built in an historic Neo-Gothic style. Nowadays, the house is especially praised for this reason. The facade is decorated with coloured sgraffito and frescos after drawings by Mikoláš Aleš.

At its core, this is a Gothic house, documented around the mid-15th century under the name At the Stone Lamb, and it is decorated mainly with a grand early Renaissance portal with a balcony dated to c. 1531. The portal is connected to the activity of the circle of masons connected to the court of Benedikt Ried. Above the portal is a stone slab with a somewhat mysterious house sign depicting an animal which resembles a lamb with only one horn, and a virgin standing next to it. The mason who worked on the slab in c.

The photograph depicts the reconstruction of the originally late Gothic house no 3/I, the so-called House at the Minute (Dům u Minuty), sometimes also called At the White Lion (U Bílého lva) after the sculpture on its corner.

Pařížská Street (called Nürnbergerstrasse in 1940–1945) at the entry to Old Town Square was one of the central points of the uprising. The street connects the law faculty building with Old Town Square. The Law Faculty of Charles University was stripped of its function soon after the universities were closed down in November 1939. Beginning in February 1940 the building served as the SS headquarters (Standortkommandatur). This building was the command centre for the battle of the SS units for central Prague. German tanks were shooting down Pařížská Street on 5 and 6 May.

“Prague has lived through all the successes and triumphs of this state and nation and has suffered all its defeats, all its troubles and all its pains.

Sudek took a total sixteen of shots of the blasted balustrade on the northern tower of the cathedral of Our Lady before Týn on Old Town Square. The main motif was a panorama of the western side of the square with the dominating form of the damaged tower of the town hall and its Neo-Gothic wing.

Sudek watched the course of events on Old Town Square and the changes to the Old Town Hall unfold during the days immediately after the end of the war, and in the following years as well. Therefore his images include the whole northern part of the town hall after the fire, the course of its demolition and in the end the ruin of the eastern wing behind the scaffolding which remained in the same place for several years after the war. The scaffolding is captured in a total of nine negatives, in rainy weather and fog veiling its construction.