The manduva logili homes, mostly found near Godavari, Guntur, Nellore, Cuddapah or Vijayanagaram were mostly built before the 1950s. There were two kinds of traditional houses in Andhra Pradesh.

Some of the historians say Veeresalingam’s house Manduva logili had been built by his grandfather 200 years ago. But the Archaeological department says it is about 140 years old.

The ‘Manduva’ house, known by the name as the centre is open to the sky with rooms built all round in square shape, was built by Annamdevula Suraiah in 1931 by transporting logs of teak and ...

Procuring clay pan tiles or wooden rafters and porchesthat adorn the traditional kutcha houses — Manduva Logili — has ... but to go for a new house instead of languishing in crumbling ...