National Insurance Building - Bombay
Hornby Rd, Fort.
Formed in 1906 in Calcutta, the National Insurance Company was one of many local Indian insurance companies which were formed from 1906 to 1908 in response to the domination of the insurance market by mainly British insurance companies. Like bank buildings, the architecture of insurance company head offices were designed to give the impression of solidity and dependability.
Named after William Hornby, Governor of Bombay from 1771 to 1784, Hornby Road is at the heart of the European commercial centre of the Fort area of Bombay.This busy streetscape retains its heritage architecture, a medley of Victorian neo-Gothic, Indo-Saracenic, neo-classical and Edwardian structures linked together by a continuous ground floor pedestrian arcade mandated by government regulation in 1896. The pedestrian arcade provided shelter from rain and the sun and remains among the early urban design statements of colonial India.
National Insurance Building - Bombay
Hornby Rd, Fort.
Formed in 1906 in Calcutta, the National Insurance Company was one of many local Indian insurance companies which were formed from 1906 to 1908 in response to the domination of the insurance market by mainly British insurance companies. Like bank buildings, the architecture of insurance company head offices were designed to give the impression of solidity and dependability.
Named after William Hornby, Governor of Bombay from 1771 to 1784, Hornby Road is at the heart of the European commercial centre of the Fort area of Bombay.This busy streetscape retains its heritage architecture, a medley of Victorian neo-Gothic, Indo-Saracenic, neo-classical and Edwardian structures linked together by a continuous ground floor pedestrian arcade mandated by government regulation in 1896. The pedestrian arcade provided shelter from rain and the sun and remains among the early urban design statements of colonial India.