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Fort
St George
THE ISLAND

SWAMI SIVANANDA ROAD
Cooum (Kuvam)
A busy evening scene on the
BABU JAGAJEEVANRAM ROAD STADIUM PARK Key Suggested route This sculpture was created by
Marina Beach
ANNA
WALLAJAH ROAD
Chepauk
Debi Prasad Roy Chowdhary
CHIDAMBARM
VENKATRANGAM STREET PILLAI STREET VICTORIA HOSTEL ROAD Tips for Walkers Annie Besant Road, is the Ice
(see p568), who became the
KAMARAJAR SALAI ( SOUTH BEACH ROAD)
first Indian principal of
the Madras School of Arts

and Crafts in 1929.
West of the main road, off
House 9, formerly a women’s
hostel known as Vivekananda
House. In the 1840s, this
circular building, with a stone
Starting point: Victory War
BHARATHI SALAI
pineapple perched on its roof,
Memorial. Length: 5 km (3 miles).
Tiruvellikeni
was a storehouse for ice, which
Getting there: MRTS train station
CAR STREET WENLOCK Bay of (Fort), bus or taxi. Stopping-off was imported all the way from
PARK
points: A range of eateries and
New England (USA). It was also
SINGARACHARI STREET
the site from which Swami
cafés line the beachfront.
Vivekananda (see p619)
delivered his speeches, when
Bengal
I GRAMANI STREET G LALA ST M a r i n a P r o m e n a d e a n d B e a c h he visited the city. It has now
been handed over to the
Ramakrishna Mission, which
has plans to restore it. Further
south is Queen Mary’s College
0, today the Madras College
ANNIE BESANT ROAD
for Women. Opened in July
1914, this was Chennai’s first
VENKATRANGAM PILLAI STREET
DR NATES AN R OA D AVVAI SHANMUGHAM SALAI Robert Chisholm’s Legacy entrance of the building.
women’s college. A bust of
the queen still graces the
An imposing lighthouse q
marks the southern end of
the Marina.
Triumph of Labour by Debi Prasad Roy Chowdhary, 1959
B uckingham Canal
Lighthouse
Robert Fellowes Chisholm (1840–1915) was among the most
talented architects in India in the mid-19th century. In 1864,
RADHAKRISHNAN SALAI
Chisholm’s designs for the proposed Presidency College and
Senate House won a competition, and he was appointed the
consulting architect to the Madras government. The next
15 years saw considerable building activity along the Marina,
where many innovative buildings were erected. Chisholm’s
designs blended Italian and Saracenic features, so that the
new structures would harmonize with the existing Chepauk
Palace. For many years he was the head of the School of
Industrial Art, founded in 1855 and now known as the Senate House, Robert Chisholm’s signature
Government College of Fine Arts.
San Thomé building, completed in 1873
KARANEESWARAR PAGODA STREET
Basilica
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