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in mostly Hindu style, was built by Raja Wodeyar III in 1861 & is one of the oldest buildings in Mysore. The palace has an elegant façade with three large entrances. Note the molded & bracketed entablature* which supports miniature elaborate towers that look like temples & serve both as gables and as crest niches. [* the moldings & bands which lie horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals.] Initially, the palace was an ornate wooden one which was being used by the Royal family when a fire destroyed it in 1897. The Royal family lived in this palace until the main Mysore Palace was completed in 1912.
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