Greenlands Guest House
building in India
Greenlands Guesthouse is a government-owned guesthouse located in Greenlands, Begumpet, in Hyderabad. It is a notified heritage structure in Hyderabad. It is used as a state guesthouse. It was built in 1927 as a 'rest house' for the family of Nizams. Since 1952 till 1982 it was used as the official residence of chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh. In 2015 there was a proposal to raze down this building to build a multi-storeyed structure.
History
Greenlands Guesthouse was constructed by the last Nizam's Public Works Department as a seasonal retreat. The building was transferred to the newly formed Andhra Pradesh government in 1952. From 1952 to 1982, it served as the official residence of the chief minister of state, including Marri Chenna Reddy and T. Anjaiah. Later it was changed to being a state guesthouse.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as building in India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5604248. Authority coordinates are 17.435, 78.456. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1927, 1952, 1982 and 2015.
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