Metropolitan Building

Metropolitan Building - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Metropolitan Building is a commercial building on Chowringhee 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. Read more on Wikipedia

type: building
date from: 1905
official website: http://www.wmf.org/project/metropolitan-building

Source: en.wikipedia.org