Robert Chisholm (architect)

Robert Fellowes Chisholm (11 January 1840 – 28 May 1915) was a British architect who pioneered the Indo-Saracenic style of architecture in Madras.

On completion of his education, he arrived at Calcutta, India and moved to Madras in 1865, where he was appointed head of the school of industrial art.

The revenue board building in the Chepauk Palace complex, which was constructed by Chisholm in 1871,[3] was his first in the Indo-Saracenic or Muslim style of architecture.

[12] In 1876 he was appointed to the newly established executive committee of management of the Madras School of Arts,[13]: 173  and was Officiating Superintendent of that institution from 1877 to 1883.

[13]: 171  He was also responsible for the Bombay Municipal Offices and the immense Laxmi Vilas Palace in Baroda (Vadodara) during 1880–90.