The Metcalfe Hall is situated at the junction of Strand Road and Hare Street, the heart of the city's business centre. Its architecture is reflective of the British imperial architecture of the early nineteenth century. It was built between 1840 and 1844 according to the design prepared by the city magistrate, C. K. Robinson and named after Sir Charles T. Metcalfe, the Governor-General of india, in honour of his efforts towards a free press. The building faces the Hooghly river on the West. The notable Greek order of the architecture was taken from the Tower of the Winds in Athens, one of the time tested designes of durability and lightness. The building is raised on a solid basement and thirty huge Corinthian pillars support a massive entablature. The columns and colonnade surround the whole building.