During the Dutch occupation, the city formerly named Batavia designated as a center of government. However, for the Dutch city of Batavia is felt too hot, even though its population at that time not solid like this now. So it was decided to seek a more sheltered place to rest.
Since the early 18th century sought resorts outside the city which is more cool air, as practiced by the Governor-General Gustaaf Willem Van Imhoff Barron who entered into the inspection area Cianjur in West Java on August 10, 1744, he found a place that is considered strategic and good for a resort that is located is now called "Bogor".
Then in 1745, the Governor-General Baron Gustaaf Willem Van Imhoff ordered to build a building that is now known as the Bogor palace. But at that time was merely a mansion imitated from Blainheim Palace, residence of the Duke of Malborough (ancestors of Lady Diana, Princess of Wales) near Oxford in England. The building itself is called Buitenzorg (free of problems / difficulties). The name was not only used for the palace, but also for the surrounding villages.
These inns have experienced damage from attacks Banten forces led by Kiai Tapa and Ratu Bagus Buang (Queen Good Discard). Later in the reign of Jacob Mossel, build it back with maintaining the original shape, because members of the Indian Council advised not change this shape considering building a replica of Buitenzorg Palace Bleinheim.
Since then several Dutch governor made repairs and improvements tailored to the needs at that time, including that done by the Governor-General Herman Willem Deandles (vice-French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte), which is famous for the Great Master of Thunder (1808-1811), adding a building at the KIR-wing and right wing of the main building into two levels. And also to decorate the pages maintained three pairs of deer from the border of India and Nepal. This type of deer are spotted deer (axis axis-species), now the population reaches about 850 tails.
When the Dutch power was taken over by British rule, the year 1811-1816 Leutenant Governoor General Thomas Stanford Raffles as a representative of the UK Monarchy in Indonesia, doing a massive renovation, especially in the middle of the palace buildings into 2 (two) and rearranging the floor landscaped gardens around the palace into the gardens of the British model.Year 1817-1826 Governor General Van Der GP Godert Alexander Cappelen add towers Lantern (lantern zetrum) right at the central building. Before the year 1817 surrounding soil and plants around the palace in Bogor, gradually became experimental gardens for the investigation of tropical plants from within and abroad.
On May 18, 1817 was established as an experimental garden: Great Garden "Prof. founders.C.G.C. Reinwardt which at that time served as director of agriculture, crafts, and sciences Dutch East Indies.
Dated October 10, 1834 the West Java region was rocked southern and western parts of the earthquake. Part of the palace building was heavily damaged, so it was decided to destroy it. In 1850 the Governor-General A. Jaco Van Twist Duymaher initiative to rebuild Buitenz Palzt with Palladian architecture in the style of 19th century building.
Building a new palace realized since the reign of Governor-General Pahud De Montanger (1856-1861), then in 1870 the palace in Bogor Buitenzorg Palace or official designated as the official residence of the Governor Jenderl Netherlands.
Buitenzorg Palace's last occupant was the Governor General Tjarda van Starkenborg Stachourwer who was forced to hand over the palace to the General Imamura, the Japanese occupation government.
In 1950, after a period of independence, Bogor Presidential Palace began to be used by the Indonesian government, and officially became one of the Indonesian Presidential Palace
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