Metcalfe House
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Metcalfe House is the name given to two residential houses built in the nineteenth century in Delhi; one is near Old Delhi Civil Lines and the other is in Mehrauli, South Delhi. These were built by Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, 4th Baronet, the refined Civil Servant, when he was the Governor General s last British Resident at the Mughal Court of Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II. The first house near the Civil Lines, called the town house , was built in 1835 in colonial style, near the present day Inter State Bus Terminal. He resided there till his…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Metcalfe House is the name given to two residential houses built in the nineteenth century in Delhi; one is near Old Delhi Civil Lines and the other is in Mehrauli, South Delhi. These were built by Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, 4th Baronet, the refined Civil Servant, when he was the Governor General s last British Resident at the Mughal Court of Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II. The first house near the Civil Lines, called the town house , was built in 1835 in colonial style, near the present day Inter State Bus Terminal. He resided there till his death in 1853. It was badly damaged during the 1857 Indian War of Independence. It was repaired subsequently. His son Sir Theophilus Metcalfe inherited it. The house exchanged hands several times before it finally came under the possession of the Government of India. Between 1920 and 1926, it also remained the seat of the Council of State of the Central Legislative Assembly, which eventually paved way for the present Rajya Sabha, till the inauguration of the Parliament House in New Delhi.