The Anglican St. Mary's Church was built in 1894 at the north side of Merdeka Square, on land originally occupied by the stables of the nearby Selangor Club (Figure 2). The church was designed in the early Gothic style that features flying buttresses on the outside of the octagonal nave, stained glass tracery windows, pinnacles, pointed arches and crenellated parapet. In the old days, the church was the second social centre for the Anglican community in Kuala Lumpur after the Club.

The offices were strategically located on the Bluff area (near Bukit Aman), a hill site that faces the Selangor Club and Merdeka Square (Figure 3). These offices and other buildings on the site including the old police offices and barracks were replaced by the present national police headquarters. It is believed that some of these offices were then moved to the Sultan Abdul Samad Building upon its completion in 1897.

The Sultan Abdul Samad Building (named after the then Sultan of Selangor) was built in 1894-97, stretching 400 feet along Jalan Raja (Figure 4). The building was originally constructed to house the Secretariat offices of Selangor. Later, it was occupied by the Selangor State Government Treasury, the Accountant-General's Office and the Marriage Registry. It is currently used by the Justice Department to house both the Federal and High Courts.

The Pudu Gaol or Kuala Lumpur Gaol was built in 1895 at the corner of Jalan Hang Tuah and Jalan Pudu, sprawling over 8.9 hectares (Figure 5). The 'X' shape prison consists of three storeys and 240 cells with six-inch thick walls of cement, steel and bricks. The prison complex was initially built to accommodate 950 prisoners. It is believed that Spooner contrived to give an Islamic flavour to the main entrance.

In 1885-86, two identical blocks of wet market were built to replace Yap Ah Loy's market at Medan Pasar. The blocks were constructed on a more spacious site near the present Kuala Lumpur Central Market on Jalan Hang Kasturi. It was typical in those days to build a market of one-storey high with jack roofs, big openings, louvered shading devices, brick or pre-cast galvanised iron pillars (see old markets of Taiping and Georgetown). In the 1930's, the market was eventually replaced by the present building.

The police offices or Police Depot was sited on the Bluff area (Bukit Aman) where the national police headquarters stands today (Figure 6). The Depot was constructed on a hill overlooking Merdeka Square and the Kuala Lumpur skyline.

In 1880, when Bloomfield Douglas, Selangor's second British Resident, moved the state capital from Klang to Kuala Lumpur, the Resident's house was brought over from Klang and erected on a hill near the present compound of the Prime Minister's Department (Figure 7). However, in 1888 the house was replaced by a more stately bungalow built in the style of the European wooden house. The two-storey building was built with high ceilings, spacious verandahs, balconies and big windows.

The original building of Victoria Institution was built in the1890's on High Street or Jalan Bandar, near the present Jalan Kinabalu's roundabout (Figure 8). In 1929, when the school moved to its present quarters on Jalan Shaw, the two-storey building was then taken over by Kuala Lumpur Technical College. The old building of Victoria Institution was later demolished to give way for modern development.

The building was built in 1896-97 on a hill overlooking an area which was later developed into the Lake Gardens. The two-storey building was constructed to accommodate Sir Frank Swettenham, the then Resident-General of the Federated Malay States. In 1901, Frank Swettenham named it Carcosa, a name derived from Cassilda's song in Act 1, Scene 2 of Robert W. Chambers' book called The King in Yellow (1895). With the eclectic fusion of Neo-Gothic and Tudor styles, the residence has more than eight bedrooms including master bedroom and guest rooms; and eleven bathrooms.