Garhi Shahu is home to imposing government buildings like the huge Governor’s House, with colonial-era Indo-Gothic arches and Palladian colonnades, and the 1938 Punjab Assembly.

[1] The area was a prominent neighbourhood home to many religious intellectuals, including well-known Baghdadi scholar Abu Khair who maintained a renowned madrassah there.

He expropriated Abu Khair's sizable madrassah to maintain a storage house for stolen goods.

[2] In 1886, the British Raj amalgamated all private and public rail systems as The North Western State Railway to both secure the border against Afghanistan and meet the increased demand to transport raw materials.

There is also an important Christian cemetery adjacent to the area in the historic Hindu neighbourhood Dharampura.

In 2012, the Lahore Development Authority took control of Gosha-e-Aman, a large Christian complex in the neighbourhood that included a covenant, a church, and small residences.