Frederick William Stevens (11 November 1847 – 5 March 1900) was an English

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who worked for the British colonial government in

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. Stevens' most notable design was the railway station Victoria Terminus in Bombay (in 1996, it was renamed the

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (officially Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, Bombay station code: CSMT ( mainline)/ST (suburban)), is a historic railway terminus and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The terminus wa ...

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). Stevens also designed the

Municipal Corporation Building, Mumbai The Municipal Corporation Building, Mumbai, located in South Mumbai, Maharashtra, India is a Grade IIA heritage building opposite to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (a UNESCO World heritage site) at the junction of Dadabhai Naoroji Road and ...

the Royal Alfred Sailor's Home, the Army and Navy Building at Kala Ghoda, the Post-Office Mews at Apollo Bunder, the head offices of the BB&CI Railway at

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, and the Oriental Life Assurance Offices at the

Flora Fountain Flora Fountain is a Fountain located at the Hutatma Chowk is an ornamentally sculpted architectural heritage monument located at the southern end of the historic Dadabhai Naoroji Road, at the Fort business district in the heart of South Mum ...

. He also designed the Rajmahal Palace at Mehsana. He died on 5 March 1900 following

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and was buried in Sewri Christian Cemetery. Sewri

His name and statue can be seen in a scene in the 2006 movie

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stevens, Frederick William 19th-century English architects 19th-century Indian architects Gothic Revival architects Stevens, Fredrick William 1847 births 1900 deaths Deaths from malaria