3-028-524 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New Government House at Gunesh Khind, Poonah, Bombay, 1870. The British in India. A mansion '...designed by Mr. Trubshawe...[and] constructed, under the direction of Colonel M. Kennedy (chief engineer), by Mr. W. Stuart Howard; the contractors for the internal fittings and decorations were Messrs. Donovan and Freeman. The materials of the building are chiefly the grey stone common in this part of India. The style of architecture is Italian, as shown in our view of the south-east front, with a large square tower, 100 ft. high, and a smaller tower, surmounted by an iron canopy and flagstaff, rising to the height of nearly 160 ft. The building is divided into two portions, containing the state apartments and the private apartments...There is a hall of entrance, a ladies'-room, a billiard-room...[and a] state dining-room...The Governor's private residence...is approached from a carriage-porch on the east, through a loggia, into a cortile...The ground floor of this portion is taken up by a private drawing-room, breakfast-room, library, and the business rooms of his Excellency and his personal staff. The upper floor consists of a complete suite of sleeping apartments...[In the tower]...are a suite of sleeping apartments, topped by a belvidere'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.