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| hotel_name = Hotel d'Angelis<br />
| logo = Luggage+label+hotel+d'angelis+(de+coleccion).jpg<br />
| logo_caption = Luggage label<br />
| opened_date = 1906<br />
| location = [[Chennai]], [[India]]<br />
| address = [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]] <br />
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'''Hotel d'Angelis''' was a luxury hotel and [[restaurant]] established in 1906 by [[Giacomo D'Angelis]] at [[Mount Road]], [[Madras]], India. The hotel is considered to have spearheaded the introduction of modern technology in India.<br />
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==History==<br />
[[File:Hotel D'Angelis, The Parisian Garden, Madras, 1906.jpg|left|thumb|250px|A 1906 post card of Parisian Garden in Hotel D'Angelis]]<br />
[[Giacomo D'Angelis]], a [[Corsican people|Corsican]] [[confectioner]] arrived in India in 1880 and set up ''Maison Francaise'' in [[Mount Road]] in the same year. D'Angelis described ''Maison Francaise'' as a "manufacturing confectioner, glacie & C., general purveyor and mess contractor". The firm was the first in India to operate a [[catering service]] and became the official caterer to the [[Governor of Madras]] during the time of [[Oliver Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill|Lord Ampthill]].<br />
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In 1906, D'Angelis founded "Hotel d'Angelis" at the Anna statue junction, where Blacker's Road meets Mount Road. The hotel was the first in Madras to have an electric lift, hot water taps, electric fans, imported tiles, ice-making plant and cold storage.<br />
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The hotel was later sold to the Madras-based Bosotto Brothers bakeries company. It was eventually renamed the Airlines Hotel. In the 1970s, [[Bata Corporation|Bata]] established a shoe store on the ground level, and the building became known as the Bata Building. It was demolished in 2018.<ref>https://www.dtnext.in/News/City/2018/03/12004335/1064760/Yet-another-edifice-of-Old-Madras-checks-out.vpf</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[Hotels in Chennai]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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* {{cite book | title=Madras Rediscovered| last=Muthiah| first=S.| year=2004| author-link=S. Muthiah| publisher=East West Books (Madras) Pvt Ltd| isbn=81-88661-24-4|pages=65–66}}<br />
* {{cite book|title=Southern India: Its History, People, Commerce, and Industrial Resources|url=https://archive.org/details/southernindiaits00some|last=Playne|first=Somerset|author2=J. W. Bond |author3=Arnold Wright | year=1914|pages=[https://archive.org/details/southernindiaits00some/page/151 151]–152}}<br />
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* [https://archive.org/details/GiacomoDangelisFirstToFlyInAsiaMadras10March1910 Giacomo D'Angelis, first to fly in Asia (Madras 10 March 1910)]<br />
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