Hello, how are you my all local guide friends. I will talk about the historical Shashi lodge. This place name Shashi lodge. Mymensingh is the capital city of Mymensingh Division in Bangladesh.
Suryakanta Acharya Chowdhury, the successor of Muktagacna Zamindar dynasty built a luxurious two-storied palace named shashi lodge in the city of Mymensingh after the name of his adopted son Snosnikanta.
This magnificent building was decorated with different types of fancy goods which were brought from different places of Paris and Europe. This original palace was destructed by the massive earthquake in the 1897 AD. Then this palace was rebuilt in one-stories between 1905 to 1911 by shoshikanta.
It is fairly a large area, occupying about nine acres of land, and approached through an imposing semi-circular arched gateway. There is a large grassy lawn with an ornamental marble fountain containing a beautiful classical statue in between the palace and the gateway.
There is a two-storied bathing pavilion made by marble stone situated in the middle of the pond from the north corner. On entering the palace through the central porch, there is a foyer which leads into large hall with timber floor, which was used originally as a ballroom.
Elaborate glass chandeliers were hanged for lighting. The doors and windows were beautifully decorated with the colorful glass. I hope @AriMar you will like to shashi lodge.
Thaks for reading
Mohammad Alauddin