Bangabhaban was built in 1905, after the partition of Bengal, when the government of the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam acquired the site and built a palatial house for the lieutenant-governor. Nawab Sir Khwaja Abdul Ghani had earlier built a bungalow there, named Dilkusha Garden. Sir Joseph Bamfylde Fuller began official work at the palace on February 14, 1906. The infobox lists an Indo-Islamic style, and the text calls it Indo-Saracenic.
It later housed the governors of East Bengal and East Pakistan. A storm damaged it in 1961, and substantial reconstruction was completed by 1964, adding Islamic and Bengali elements. The site covers 50 acres, and the floor area is 2,178,000 square feet.
The first cabinet meeting of independent Bangladesh was held here on December 23, 1971, and it was renamed Bangabhaban. It is the President's residence.
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