Sunday 28 April 2013

Dinshaw Building


Sir H.C Dinshaw building (history to be updated).Please add any history info you know to the comments, thank you !!

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  1. May I open the discussion by saying, this is Mumbai's iconic Sir. H. C. Dinshaw building (a.k.a. Bharat Insurance building).
    This building was constructed in 1924. Today it's a listed Grade II-A Heritage structure.

    It is a building on the circumference of the Horniman Circle in the NE quadrant of the circle, next to the City Hall.

    In the British days, this circle was called the Elphinstone Circle. It was renamed Horniman Circle in honor of Benjamin Horniman, a pro-freedom editor of the Bombay Chronicle.

    The Sir H.C. Dinshaw building hosts the Main Branch of The State Bank of India.
    Prior to construction of the H. C. Dinshaw building, in 1863 at this very spot stood the British Bank of Bombay, inaugurated by Sir Bartle Frere, in whose memory the Flora Fountain was built.

    The Sir H.C. Dinshaw building has a neat arched promenade visible in your photograph. The keystone ornaments on the arches have the face of a man with long hair, long moustache and luxuriant beard. I wonder whom that face is meant to represent!

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