State Guest House (Vietnam)

State Guest House
Native name Vietnamese: Nhà khách Chính phủ
Tonkin Palace functions as Vietnam's State Guesthouse today
Location	Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi, Vietnam
Area	15,000 m2 (160,000 sq ft) (floor space) 117,000 m2 (1,260,000 sq ft) (site)
Built for	French Governor of Tonkin
Architect	Auguste Henri Vildieu
Architectural style(s)	French Colonial
Website	Government Guesthouse
Location of State Guest House in Vietnam

The State Guest House (Vietnamese: Nhà khách Chính phủ) is a historical monument in Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi, Vietnam. It is presently used as a state guest house.

The building is representative of French Colonial architecture in French Indochina. It formerly was the residential palace of the Tonkin Governor (French: Le Palais du Résident Supérieur du Tonkin, Vietnamese: Dinh Thống Sứ Bắc Kỳ), built between 1918 and 1919 to house the French Governor of Tonkin. It was later renamed the Tonkin Palace (Vietnamese: Bắc Bộ Phủ) when the Viet Minh took over northern Vietnam.

History[]

The palace was built by Auguste Henri Vildieu between 1918 and 1919 to house the French Governor of Tonkin.

The building was the location of Viet Minh's takeover of northern Vietnam, following the August Revolution.^[1]

In modern times, it is used as the State Guest House of the Vietnamese Government.

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  Tonkin Palace at night

See also[]

• Presidential Palace in Ba Đình District, built between 1900 and 1906 to house the French Governor-General of Indochina
• Guest house 108 Nguyen Du (Nhà khách 108 Nguyễn Du) in Saigon, was the former state guest house of South Vietnam

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