Raj Bhavan Complex (কলকাতা (Kolkata Metropolitan District))

Until the move to Delhi, this was the Viceroy's palace; since then, it's been the residence of the governor of West Bengal. Begun about 1800 by the Marquess of Wellesley, it cost so much that the directors of the East India Company angrily recalled him in 1805, dismissed him as governor-general, and sued him for unauthorized extravagance.. A century later, George Curzon moved in. He must have felt right at home, because the building by remarkable coincidence was largely copied by Charles Wyatt from the design made earlier by Robert Adam for Curzon's his family seat, Kedleston Hall, near Coventry. Kedleston was built of sandstone; this palace, of plastered brick. It wasn't a cozy place in any case: viceroys and their wives deplored the vast spaces and the mice. It's closed to the public, but you can tour most of Kedleston Hall and find many bits of viceregal Curzoniana.