- Maidens Hotel, Delhi
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Maidens Hotel 
Address Civil Lines, Delhi Hotel chain Oberoi Hotels & Resorts Opening date 1903 Website maidenshotel.com The Maidens Hotel, Delhi, also Oberoi Maidens Hotel, and originally, Maiden's Metropolitan Hotel is a heritage hotel in the Civil Lines section of Delhi, India. Opened in 1903, it was one of the earliest modern hotels in Delhi, and situated in the Civil Lines, where all European style hotels were situated and the officers of British Raj stayed. [1]
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History
A 1908 travel handbook advertising the Maiden's Metropolitan Hotel in Delhi
The original hotel (Metropolitan Hotel) was jointly run by two Englishmen, the Maiden brothers, from 1894 onwards, and in its present location by one of them, J. Maiden, from 1902 onwards. In the early 20th century, the hotel was widely considered to be the best hotel in Delhi. At the time of the 1903 Coronation Durbar held by Lord Curzon to celebrate the coronation of Edward VII as Emperor of India, the Metropolitan Hotel was the most sought after hotel accommodation in Delhi and the most expensive.
Today it is part of the Oberoi Hotels & Resorts chain, [2]
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References
- Fanshawe, Herbert Charles (1908). A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon: including the provinces of Bengal, Bombay, Madras, the United Provinces of Agra and Lucknow, the Panjab, the North-West Frontier Province, Beluchistan ... etc (London ed.). J. Murray. p. 535. http://books.google.com/books?id=3VQqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA535. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
See also
- Ludlow Castle, Delhi
External links
Categories:- History stubs
- Buildings and structures in Delhi
- Hotels in Delhi
- Oberoi Hotels & Resorts
- Heritage hotels in India
- North Delhi district
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