PTI, NEW DELHI: A sprawling bungalow in Lutyens’ Delhi that Union Home Minister Amit Shah is likely to be allotted, had once served as the residence of the architect of Parliament House during the construction of the new imperial capital of India, according to a historian.
The bungalow, currently carrying the address 6A, Krishna Menon Marg was originally known as the 8, Hastings Road bungalow in the British-era, and its last occupant was former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
City-based historian and author Swapna Liddle, says this bungalow has had many noted occupants and architect Sir Herbert Baker resided in it while New Delhi was being built as the new capital of the British Raj.
While Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was the main architect of the new imperial capital, Baker and other architects also assisted in designing several iconic buildings dotting the landscape.
