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'''Arathoon Stephen''' ({{lang-hy|Արաթուն սթիվեն}}; 1861 – 14 May 1927) was an [[Armenians|Armenian]] hotelier and real estate developer based in India. Amongst other properties, he owned and developed the Kolkata institutions: the Empire Theatre and the [[Grand Hotel (Kolkata)|Grand Hotel]].<br />
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Born in 1861, Stephen arrived in Calcutta from Isfahan (A city & province in Iran) sometime in the early nineteenth century where he first began selling jewelry from a wheelbarrow. Later, he opened a jewelry and antique shop at 18 Chowringhee Road and the Theatre Royale at No. 16. In 1911, he bought out a run-down boarding house run by Mrs. Annie Monk and built the [[Grand Hotel (Kolkata)|Grand Hotel]].<ref name=denby>{{Cite book|last=Denby|first=Elaine|title=Grand Hotels: Reality and Illusion|publisher=Reaktion|date=April 2004|pages=197–198|isbn=9781861891211|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NhLyGME7734C&q=%22Great+Eastern+Hotel%22+%22Spence+Hotel%22&pg=PA197}}</ref> Stephen also owned several other properties in Calcutta, many of which now have heritage status, including Queens Mansion (which houses the Armenian Club of Calcutta), Stephen Court, Stephen House and the Empire Theatre.<ref name="denby"/><ref name=karkaria>{{Cite news|newspaper=The Times of India|title=500 tea-pots, 1 cockroach: A Good Average|last=Karkaria|first=Bachi|date=28 March 2010|url=http://lite.epaper.timesofindia.com/mobile.aspx?article=yes&pageid=4&edlabel=TOIKM&mydateHid=28-03-2010&pubname=&edname=&articleid=Ar00400&format=&publabel=TOI}}</ref> He also built and owned the Everest Hotel in [[Darjeeling]].<ref>[https://archive.today/20130629122154/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-08-08/kolkata/33099300_1_oberoi-group-prs-oberoi-s-s-mukherji ]</ref> Stephen died on 14 May 1927.<ref name="denby"/><ref>[https://archive.today/20130629122502/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-12-26/kolkata/30558450_1_clue-park-street-carnival-google/2 ]</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20130629121900/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-04-27/kolkata/27263897_1_oberoi-grand-grand-hotel-banyan-tree ]</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Indian people of Armenian descent]]<br />
[[Category:Indian hoteliers]]<br />
[[Category:1861 births]]<br />
[[Category:1927 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Businesspeople from Kolkata]]<br />
[[Category:People from Isfahan]]</div>->Lancepark