Today it is owned by Life Insurance Corporation and houses commercial, railways and other government offices.

The building occupies a site bounded by Esplanade Row to the south, Marx Engels Beethi Road (or Old Courthouse Street) to the west and James Hickey Sarani (or Dacres Lane) to the east.

[4] It was owned and built by a Jewish business magnate, David Elias Ezra in 1910.

[7] A blend of Art Nouveau[8][9] and Edwardian architecture can be seen in the corner tower and cupola.

[12] It also houses the office of the Chief Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Railways on the Raj Bhavan side and the Railway Claims Tribunal[1] on the Curzon Park side, both on the ground floor.