Old Dhaka

High court is a colonial building in Dhaka situated in Qazi Nazrul Islam Avenue opposite of the Curzon Hall. The two storey building was originally designed as the official residence of the governor of East Bengal and Assam. On completion of the building the consulting architect of the government of India considered it unbefitting for the governor’s residence and therfore it remained vacant. Later it housed Dhaka Intermediate College and still later in East Pakistan it was converted into High Court.