Kushtia Municipal Building

Kushtia Municipal Building
Kushtia Municipal Building
কুষ্টিয়া পৌর ভবন
	Front side of Municipal Building
Former names	Zamindar house of Satish Saha
General information
Architectural style	European architecture
Location	Majampur
Town or city	Kushtia
Country	Bangladesh
Coordinates	23°54′37″N 89°07′19″E / 23.9103796°N 89.1219930°E
Owner	Kushtia Municipality
Technical details
Floor count	3
Other information
Number of rooms	12
Website
	municipality.kushtia.gov.bd

Kushtia Municipal Building or Kushtia Paur Bhavan (Bengali: কুষ্টিয়া পৌর ভবন) is a palatial building located in the Kushtia city. Earlier it was the zamindar house of Satish Saha. Since 1966, the building has been used as the office of the Kushtia Municipality.^[1]

History

The municipal building was built in the European architectural style during the British period. Its exact year of construction is unknown. It was the house of Satish Saha, the zamindar of Kushtia. Since 1966 it has been used as the office of Kushtia Municipality.

Structure

The building is a tall three-storied building built on a rectangular ground-plan in European architecture. The height of the building is 42 feet (13 m) and 62 feet (19 m) in length from north to south when viewed from east and west, the building looks like English letter 'H'. Bricks and tiles, lime-surki, plaster and kadi-barga have been used as construction materials. Above each door and window is a semicircular arch with four tiers of geometric proportions. Windows and doors have wooden shutters. The walls of the building are more than two feet thick and the corners are carved. There are total 12 rooms in the building.