Montgomery Hall, Lahore

Built in the 1862, and named after one of the first British lieutenant-governors, it "carried European classical architecture into this distant and recently conquered province," according to Thomas R. Metcalf in An Imperial Vision Indian Architecture and Britain's Raj (U. of California Press, 1989, p. 14). "The British in India," he continues, "used a classical architecture, and European architectural styles generally, to proclaim their Raj as an enduring empire like that of Rome." (p. 16)