Location: Beach Road
Maharajas Ramachandra Deo first and Vikram Deo – Jeypore zamindars/kings – built this edifice as a sort of transit halt during British Raj. Its Construction lasted four years from 1917. It is named “Hawa mahal” for the bountiful winds from Bay of Bengal that it receives round the clock, whole year. Many dignitaries of British Raj and Independent India camped in this stunning building: prominent being Babu Rajendra Prasad, the first President of Indian republic and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of Independent India, when he visited Vizag in 1961 to inaugurate the first ship built by Hindustan Ship Yard, “Jala Usha”. Even Allied army top brass too stayed here to outsmart the Japanese war designs during Second World War.
It is an extravagant two-storeyed structure of rectangular stone masonry building with a central courtyard. Its signature style is prominently visible in the regal projected semi-hexagonal corner frontages and a single-storey arched central porch in the front. The tall rooms, wooden railings, stone carvings, Italian marble flooring, embossed tiles, carved bargeboards, etc are the other glorious architectural features.
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