The imposing Marshall Sons and Co. is a corner building at the intersection of Shoorji Vallabhdas Road and Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg. The building was designed in Edwardian Baroque style by architect Charles Frederick Stevens, son of the late Frederick W Stevens who had been Mumbai's most celebrated architect during the Victorian Gothic phase.
Keystone with floral scrolls emerging from it over oeil-de-boeuf (Ox eye window) at the Marshall Sons and Co. building. The use of exaggerated keystones was a typical Neo-Baroque architectural detail used in buildings from the Edwardian era (1901–1910).
Karfule is word-play on 'Car Fuel'. The pump opened in 1938 and is run by the Sequeira family, now in its third generation. The business was started by Gabriel Sequeira, who had immigrated from Goa in the late 1920s. Until his death in 2001, at 98 years of age, Gabriel Sequeira remained actively involved in the Karfule business, visiting the pump regularly.
Located on the ground floor of Wakefield House, Britannia and Co. was founded (1923) by Rashid Kohinoor, who had emigrated from Iran to Mumbai in search of a better life. His son and Britannia's long-time owner, Boman Kohinoor (1923-2019), was proud of the cafe’s historic link to Britain and its royal family. He called himself the ‘Royal Family’s No.1 fan’.
Neville House is the headquarter of Bombay Dyeing and Co; Manufacturing Company Ltd., the flagship company of the Wadia Group, founded in 1736 by Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia, considered the founder of the shipbuilding industry in Mumbai. The Bombay dry dock, the first dry dock in Asia, was built by Lovji Wadia and his brother Sorabji Wadia in 1750.
The Grand Hotel has ground-level windows with outward projecting canopies painted in alternating bands of blue and white. Above the windows, bracketed cornice runs all around the building, supporting balconies on the first floor (also on the third-floor level). The second-floor balconies are supported by stone brackets.
Commerce House is located on Currimbhoy Road. The first floor of the Commerce House hosts the contemporary art gallery Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, representing some of the country’s most sought-after painters. The gallery opened in 2006.
Entrance to Marshall Sons and Co. building, at the intersection of Shoorji Vallabhdas Road and Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg. The entrance has a round pediment with two life-size female figures seated in the spandrel. The year of its construction, 1906, is inscribed above the keystone.
The entrance to Darabshaw House is through a semi-circular arched doorway with moldings. Above the entrance, a row of stone brackets supports a balcony that runs around the cornice. Note the bollard on the footpath. Originally, bollards were used for mooring ships to the dock but are now installed to control road traffic.