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This is a photograph of the upper section of the six-storey Hill Street Police Station and Barracks at 140 Hill Street. The building was constructed between 1930 and 1934 and owes its neo-classical style to Mr. Frank Dorrington Ward, Chief Architect of the Public Works Department. The exterior of the building features symmetrical designs, with balconies, arcades, columns and rough surface masonry blocks. The building was officially declared open in 1934 by Mr. G. Sturrock, Director of Public Works. It housed the living quarters of police personnel between 1935 and 1980. Between 1983 and March 1997, it was home to the National Archives and Oral History Department. It was gazetted as a national monument by the Preservation of Monuments Board on 18 December 1998. On 1 November 2000, it was reopened as the MITA Building by Mr. Lee Yock Suan, Minister of Information and the Arts. In 2001, the Ministry of Information and the Arts (MITA) was renamed the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts when the Infocomm Technology under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology came under it. In 2004, the ministry changed its acronym from MITA to MICA and renamed the building as MICA Building. Title devised by Library staff.