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ATTARA KACHERI (HIGH COURT)

Attara Kacheri literally means "eighteen offices" or departments (in Kannada). 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.