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Laxmi Niwas Palace
Bikaner, India · Independent · Accessible Luxury
Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob raised this red-sandstone Indo-Saracenic palace for Maharaja Ganga Singh, the Laxmi Niwas wing around 1902 inside a complex begun in 1896. Lord Curzon, Queen Mary, King George V, and Georges Clemenceau slept here. The dining room still seats 400. Forty rooms now, part of Lallgarh Palace in Bikaner. The larger complex took until 1926 to finish.
- 40 rooms
- Opened 1904
- Neighborhood: Lallgarh
- Architect: Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob
About Laxmi Niwas Palace
- Designed by Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob in red-sandstone Indo-Saracenic style, part of the Lallgarh Palace complex.
- The Laxmi Niwas wing was completed around 1902; the larger complex ran from 1896 to 1926.
- Guests once included Lord Curzon, Queen Mary, King George V, and Georges Clemenceau in 1920.
- The dining room seats 400, a scale left from its life as a Bikaner royal residence.
History
Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob designed Laxmi Niwas Palace in red-sandstone Indo-Saracenic style for Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner. The Laxmi Niwas wing was completed around 1902 inside a larger Lallgarh complex begun in 1896 and finished in 1926. Guests included Lord Curzon, Queen Mary, King George V, and French statesman Georges Clemenceau in 1920. The dining room seats 400. Forty rooms now operate as a heritage hotel, 2 km from Junagarh Fort.
The setting
2 km from 16th-century Junagarh Fort. 3 km from Prachina Museum.
Amenities
- Carved red-sandstone Indo-Saracenic courtyards
- Dining room scaled for royal banquets
- Spa
- Pool
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