Attara
Kacheri literally means "eighteen offices"
or departments. In 1864, Commissioner Bowring conceived
and prepared the plans for setting up a full-fledged
secretariatbuilding, almost a century before the Vidhana
Soudha was even thought of.
It was earlier known as the Old Public Offices, housing
the general revenue and secretariat of the State government.
It now has the offices of the High Court of Karnataka.
The
Attara Kacheri building was completed in 1868 at a
cost of Rs 4.5 lakh. The work on the building was
executed by Rao Bahadur Arcot Narayanaswamy Mudaliar.
It is an impressive two-storied building of stone
and brick, red in colour and has been built in the
Greco-Roman style.
