Old Oriental Building was built in the late nineteenth century, and is a Grade-III heritage structure. This is another example of a typical corner building that uses cast iron and wooden frame balconies on its second and third floors. Today, these features seem stylistically irreplaceable because they represent the last of the frontages from the 1800s in this area. The Fountain Restaurant and its sister concern Fountain Dry Fruits, established in 1922 are intact. So are the White House restaurant and the Kay Davy clothiers, remnants of the bygone Raj era.

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