Dalhousie Square is one of the finest precincts of colonial heritage structures which acted as an embryo of the modern city of Calcutta. It is the largest repository of colonial structures found in no other city in India. This 2 square kilometer heritage precinct is replete with edifices, the grandeur and scale of which is truly unparalleled. At one end is Raj Bhavan, built-in 1803 in the likeness of an English country mansion (Keddleston Hall in Derbyshire), and at the other is Writers’ Buildings, an impression mish-mash of Corinthian facade, Ionic pillars and Baroque statuary, built originally in 1776 (many additions were made to the building in later decades) for the ‘writers’ of the East India Company. GPO, with its magnificent dome and Corinthian pillars, and the Neoclassical St Johns Cathedral are some of the other stories in brick and mortar around the square.