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Chennai General Post Office (GPO) is located on Rajaji Salai at Parry's Corner, Chennai. It functions in a building built in 1884. It is located opposite to the Chennai Beach suburban railway station. Chennai GPO covers an area of about 23.33 km 2 (9.01 sq mi) and serves a population of around 220,000. It has no sub-branch offices. [1]
Anna Salai Head Post office, one of the most important post offices in the city, is located on this road. It was established in 1854 as Mount Road SO as a non-gazetted delivery office. With the growth of commerce and urbanization, this SO was upgraded to gazetted in 1955.
General Post Office: Victorian Architecture: 1884 Robert Fellowes Chisholm: George Town: Built at a cost of ₹ 680,000. [43] 56 Victoria Public Hall: Indo-Saracenic: 1888-1890 Robert Fellowes Chisholm: Park Town: The venue of the first cinema show in Chennai. 57 Madras High Court: Indo-Saracenic: 1892 J. W. Brassington, Henry Irwin: George Town
Commissioned in 1909, the Ripon Building was designed by G.T.S. Harris. The foundation stone was laid by Lord Minto, Viceroy of India, on 11 December 1909. [1] It was built by Loganatha Mudaliar, and took four years to build at a cost of ₹ 750,000, including a sum of ₹ 550,000 paid to Mudaliar.
Pages in category "Post office buildings in India" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. C. General Post Office, Chennai; D. General Post Office, Old Delhi; K.
Situated in the vicinity of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the Mumbai General Post Office (GPO) is a paradigm of Indo-Saracenic architecture. Mumbai GPO is one of the five Philatelic Bureaus in the country (others being Chennai GPO, Kolkata GPO, Parliament Street, and New Delhi GPO) that are authorised to sell the United Nations stamps.
An alley beside the post office was the site of the guardhouse that housed the infamous 1756 Black Hole of Calcutta (1756). The General Post Office was designed in 1864 by Walter B. Grenville (1819-1874), who acted as consulting architect to the government of India from 1863 to 1868. Dalhousie Square, Calcutta in 1910 with GPO in the background
In 2013, a new and wider bridge on the road across the Cooum river near Ampa Skywalk was planned at an estimated cost of ₹ 80 million under the Chennai Metropolitan Development Programme (CMDP). The 47-m-long bridge with 10 lanes, which will be the third "high-level bridge" over the river, will be broader than the road with 6 lanes.