Incredible facts about the royal residence, 'Rashtrapati Bhawan'

• Architect : Edwin Lutyens
• It is a four-storey mansion built by using 700 million bricks and 3 million cubic feet of stone.
• There are 340-room  with a floor area of 200,000 square feet.
• This magnificent building includes Mughal garden and staff quarters at a whopping amount of 14 million rupees.
• It houses 74 lobbies and galleries, one and a half miles of corridors, 18 staircases and 37 fountains.
• Its construction started during the British era and took 17 years to complete; even though it was scheduled to be completed in 4 years and on the eighteenth year, India became independent.
• The architectural pattern of the building is the fusion of Indian and European design.
• The lavish residence has a lavish Banquet Hall that can accommodate 104 people at a time.

• The beautiful Mughal Garden spans over 13 acres of land and is a fusion of Mughal and British styles.
• Ashoka Hall : originally the Ball Room of the Viceroys, complete with a wooden dance floor with springs underneath.
• The bells are similar in style to Indian Hindu and Buddhist temples, the idea being inspired from a Jain temple at Moodabidri in Karnataka. One bell is on each corner at the top of the column.
•  On 26 January 1950, when Rajendra Prasad became the first President of India and occupied this building, it was renamed as Rashtrapati Bhavan - the President's House.