About University College for Women ( O.U)
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 fa�?�§ade of massive Corinthian pillars forty feet in height. Two lions guard it across a sixty-foot s