Task 5: Colonial Building #3

The Empress Place Building was simply considered as Government offices during the colonial period. The building was originally constructed for making a courthouse but it was later transferred into offices for the government departments.

The government offices included in the building were the Secretariat, Audit Office, Registration of Deeds Office, Land Office, Public Works and Medical Department, Treasury and Stamp Office and the bureaus of the Colonial Engineer, the Official Assignee and the Inspector General of the Police Force. On the upper floor of the building there was a room specially occupied by the Legislative Chamber. The public square located in front of the building there was given the name of Empress Place in honor of Queen Victoria . It is considered to be the oldest pedestrian space found in Singapore.

(http://www.focussingapore.com/singapore-tourism/monuments-architecture/empress-place.html)