The foundations of the Archers’ Tower date back to the 15th century, and a wall once stretched from the tower to a bourgeois fortress in today’s Šance.

From 1946 to 1953, the tower was renovated according to plans by architect Boris Kobe (1905–1981). On the ground floor there was a beer hall and on the upper floor a coffee house. Kobe devoted particular attention to the design of the internal furnishings from solid wood (the chairs, tables and the spiral staircase). Together with painter Marij Pregelj (1913–1967), Kobe designed and executed the wall paintings using the sgraffito technique. The two artists found inspiration for the visual images in Slovenian folk songs and tales, and the authorship of the images accompanying the individual stories can be determined by the letter K (Kobe) and P (Pregelj).