Talk:Spence's Hotel

Details missing
I am lacking the basic details of this place. It seems to have been established in one building then re-established in another location. I do not know where either location was or to what it corresponds now. Also other than the 1830 date I have no information about when it moved, or when the hotel was finally closed. The article cited in The Hindu says that no one knows when the hotel closed, but I even do not know within 100 years what they might mean.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  21:28, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Available sources
I think there is more information in the archives from which the photos came. I put a British Museum and a Metropolitan Museum of Art photo here - someone might examine the records for those photos more closely and get more information.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  21:28, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Jules Verne verification
Wikisource does not yet have a formatted copy of Jules Verne's The Steam House, but the draft in progress is at
 * s:Index:Works of Jules Verne - Parke - Vol 12.djvu

Google has a copy of the book and relevant passage at It says, "Before dawn, on the morning of our start, I left the Spencer Hotel, one of the best in Calcutta which I had made my residence ever since my arrival."
 * https://books.google.com/books?id=lo_vEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT3808&lpg=PT3808

This connection is noted in various instances of travel literature including
 * https://openthemagazine.com/lounge/books/check-in-check-out/
 * http://heritagestructurewb.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-treasury-building-of-kolkata.html
 * http://double-dolphin.blogspot.com/2014/05/spences-hotel-and-treasury-building.html

Open (Indian magazine) may be the most editorially established of these.  Bluerasberry  (talk)  16:57, 23 January 2024 (UTC)