Whiteaways Building (Colombo Fort)
The Whiteaways Building (Sinhala: වයිට්අවේස් ගොඩනැගිල්ල) is an old three-storied building located at No.25, Sir Baron Jayatilaka Mawatha in Colombo Fort, Sri Lanka. History This building is said to have been built following a plan of the British architect Edward Skinner under the Walker & Company during the period 1905-1908 (Manathunga, 2016; Rajapakshe et al., 2018). In the beginning, it was owned by Whiteway, Laidlaw & Co., a renowned colonial emporium or department store of British India which was founded in Calcutta in 1882 and opened its branch in Colombo in 1907 (Welandawe & Weerasinghe, 2016). The building was initially used for various retail trade activities (Manathunga, 2016; Rajapakshe et al., 2018; Wright, 1999). Attribution 1) Colombo architecture by Carsten ten Brink is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 References 1) Manathunga, S. B., 2016. Pauranika Sthana Saha Smaraka: Kolamba Distrikkaya (In Sinhala). Department of Archaeology (Sri Lanka). ISBN: 955-9159-39-9. p…
