The historicism is the artistic style that started in Europe around year 1830 and took place in time marked with industrial development and modernization, the development of civil society, growth of the population, isolation of individuals from the group, breaking outdated hierarchical scales and unsustainable communities, but this was also the time of consecration the value of the antiques and fear of losing all moral and spiritual values that have respected and protected. In Croatia historicism began in the fifties of the 19th century, and because of the high industrialization and modernization at that time the population in Zagreb was significantly increased which caused growth of construction activities. It is important to emphasize that Zagreb, like many other capital cities of Europe at that time, raised the largest number of important institutions and that these buildings still are the most prominent viewpoint which are remember aside with other masterpieces from that time. Historicism, on the one hand was a logical consequence which was created from the concern for the preservation of social virtue and on the other was great artistic style that was proved from the embodiment of the idea of the reformers to build nationally important buildings. How historicism played a leading role very good shows example of city Zagreb, where today the largest number of social events has its roof in these mostly cultural buildings and important public institutions. Selected examples of representative historicist buildings in this study confirm this hypothesis.