Memorials in Chennai

     Vivekanandar Illam (or Vivekananda House, also called Ice House, Castle Kernan) is the place where Swami Vivekananda stayed for nine days when he visited Chennai (then Madras) in 1897.

     Mr. Frederic Tudor, the 'Ice King', built three houses in Calcutta, Bombay and Chennai to keep ice under proper insulation so that it could be stored for months together. Amongst the three buildings the one at Chennai alone stands today. It was built in the year 1842. Tudor maintained his business in Chennai from 1842 upto around 1880. After the invention of making ice by 'steam process' in India, his business collapsed.

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