Designed by
Arthur Benison Hubback in an
Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture, the building was originally completed in 1905 to house the headquarters for the
Federated Malay States Railways (FMSR, now
KTM). After the FMSR moved to the
Railway Administration Building in 1917, the building was handed to the Selangor Public Works department, and has subsequently housed various government and commercial occupants, including the
Selangor Water Department, the
Malaysian Central Bank,
Agricultural Bank of Malaysia,
Malaysian Craft and the
High Court, before being converted for use as the National Textile Museum and opened to the public on 9 January 2010. The building is officially designated as
JKR Building 26. It was gazetted as a historical building in 1983. ==Architecture==