Renovation Work Of Currency Building Would Be Completed Soon

Currency Building : Old Courthouse St, Calcutta.
Built in the Italianate style with Venetian windows and ornate
cast iron gates, porte-cochere and railings, this beautiful but
derelict lady was originally the Agra Bank and then the Office of
Issue and Exchange of Government Paper Currency. It later
housed the Reserve Bank of India until 1937.
Slated for demolition (and even already partly destroyed), it has
been saved from destruction and is now the subject of a long
and very slow road to recovery under the care of the
Archaelogical Survey of India.See in the first picture old view of Currency Building and the photo was taken in the year 1878. And the picture below was taken yesterday, in which it is seen that renovation work of front portion has been completed. Now the work on the side of Mango Lane are in progress.

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