Metropolitan Building (Kolkata)

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Metropolitan Building, SN Banerjee Road, New Market Area, Dharmatala, Taltala, Kolkata, West Bengal 700013, India

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N22° 33' 49.32" E88° 21' 5.76"   (22.5637, 88.3516) Start navigation »

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Metropolitan Building (Bengali: মেট্রোপলিটান বিল্ডিং) is the number 46.26 building on Jawaharlal Nehru Road in Kolkata near Esplanade. Formerly known as the Whiteway Laidlaw department store, it was a famous department store in Calcutta during the British Rule in India. This neo-baroque emporium—with domes, a clock tower, and arched recessed windows—exemplifies fashionable shopping during the British Raj in British India. The building was built in 1905. Post Independence Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. assumed ownership, so people know it more commonly as Metropolitan Building.
It is located near the Shaheed Minar and the Grand Hotel.

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