The main building of this college, which was part of the British legacy in India, is a monument of great aesthetic, architectural and historical importance. Commissioned in 1803 for the British resident, J. A. Kirkpatrick, its builder Lt. Samuel Russell of the Madras Engineers, has produced a structure capable of rivaling the Governor's house in Collate. It is massive in size and has an opulent façade of massive Corinthian pillars forty feet in height. Two lions guard it across a sixty-foot spa