This comes after the US Consulate General launched its Madras Week celebrations with a virtual tour titled ‘America in Chennai \u2014 Sites, Streets, Structures’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Prof. Suresh Sethuraman: \u201cChennai boasts of several sites, streets, and structures that have strong \u2018America\u2019 connections – the St. Mary\u2019s church within Fort St. George where Elihu Yale of Yale University fame got married in 1680, the Ice House on Kamarajar Salai where ice from Massachusetts was stored in the 19th century, the YMCA building opposite the Madras High Court built with financial aid from the US in 1900, to name only a few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This comes after the US Consulate General launched its Madras Week celebrations with a virtual tour titled ‘America in Chennai \u2014 Sites, Streets, Structures’. According to Prof. Suresh Sethuraman: \u201cChennai boasts of several sites, streets, and structures that have strong \u2018America\u2019 connections – the St. Mary\u2019s church within Fort St. George where Elihu Yale of … Continue reading ** American Centre Chennai has special corner dedicated to city historian Muthiah<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18,7,27,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-history","category-leaders","category-leaders-on-the-world-stage-all-others","category-records-all-other-excl-asia-india","category-records-india-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11821,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818\/revisions\/11821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}