Watsons Hotel now knows as Esplanade Mansion in 2008.
However, he changed his plans and decided to open a luxury hotel instead.
The partitions inside will also be hollow bricks.
The original design included traditional European mansard roof, however it was built as a simplified flat roofed form.
Watson gave his hotel the Western aesthetic.
These men were probably replaced with electrically driven ceiling fans when electricity was introduced in the country in 1879.
The Watsons Hotel shortly after it was completed.
Our rooms were high up, on the front.
Watsons Hotel was the place where the first movie screening occurred in India.
The screening here took place on 7th July 1896.
Humiliated, Tata vowed to build a hotel far grander and majestic that the one that had rejected him.
Watsons Hotel in a dilapidated state.
In the 1960s, the building was partitioned into small cubicles and rented out to housing and offices.
Watsons Hotel in a dilapidated state.
