Attara Kacheri literally means "Eight Offices" or departments. In 1864 commissioner Bowring conceived and prepare the plans for settling up a full fledged secretariat building, almost a century before the Vidhana Soudha. An impressive two storied building of stone and brick, red in colour and has been built in the Greco-Roman style, it was earlier known as the Old Public Offices, housing the general revenue and sacretariat of the state Government. It now has the offices of the High Court of Karnataka
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