More early-20th c architectural goodness from the Daryaganj area.

Click on the following links for brief descriptions of the Daryaganj area, the residential architecture of the Daryaganj area, and desi deco.

 

General location of Daryaganj within Old Delhi

Portion of Daryaganj covered in this post. General sequence of photos is from north to south

 

Area South-East of Ansari Road

 

Modernist residence

Deco doorway

“Post-deco”?

A few examples of hybrid styles from the early-to-mid-20th c

 

Along Ansari Road

There are a lot of interesting buildings on Ansari Road itself along its southern section.

 

A residence made in the version of colonial neoclassicism that was being heavily employed from the 1910s-30s a little south of Daryaganj in the construction of Lutyen’s New Delhi