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3 unusual facts about Breach Candy


Claude Batley

Among his works are the Bombay Gymkhana (1917); Wankaner Palace (1933) now Lincoln House, the American Consulate, Breach Candy; Bombay Central Station (1930); South Court or popularly now known as Jinnah House, (1935); Round Building (1937), Cusrow Baug in Colaba Causeway (1937–59) and its Agiary, known as The Seth Nusserwanji Hirji Karani Agiary (1938), Bombay Club (1939) later Hotel Nataraj and now Inter-Continental Mumbai, Lalbhai House (1942) and Breach Candy Hospital (1950).

Consulate General of the United States, Mumbai

The consulate functioned from Wankaner House, later renamed Lincoln House, located at Breach Candy in south Mumbai since 1950.

Green Lawns High School

It is situated by Scandal Point on Bomanji Petit Road Breach Candy, considered to be India's most expensive residential suburb.


Breach Candy Hospital

It was established in 1950 at the upmarket Breach Candy area in South Mumbai, and designed by an English architect Claude Batley.


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