Summary:
Urban legend has it that staff at Watson's Hotel had turned away industrialist Jamsetji Tata, which spurred him to build the Taj Mahal Hotel. Nearly 130 years old, Esplanade Mansion was earlier Watson’s Hotel. more-inMumbai: A parked taxi was crushed when the fourth-floor balcony of the Esplanade Mansion at Kala Ghoda collapsed on Sunday evening. The road approaching the sessions court, running next to Esplanade Mansion, was cordoned off from the Oval Maidan and Colaba sides after the incident. This building has nearly 100 tenants, mostly lawyers, given its proximity to the Bombay High Court and the sessions court..