This grand building deserves special mention. It was built at the end of the 18th century by Major General Claude Martin. He arrived in India from France in 1751 as a penniless, common soldier. However, his fortunes multiplied and by the time he came to Awadh he was in a position to loan Nawab Asaf-ud-duala 250,000 pounds. The title of Major General was given to him by the East India Company.
La Martiniere was originally named Constantia. While some believe that the name was derived from his motto 'Labore et Constantia'(Toil and Fidelity), others say it was a memorial to his first love, Constance, whom he had left in France. The building has been described as a tomb that became a palace. "It is both the finest, and largest, example of a European funerary monument in the subcontinent....a wedding cake in brick, a Gothic castle and a baroque folly", writes Rosie Lewellyn-Jones. In the 1790's Martin decided it should be inhabited and had it elaborately furnished and decorated with paintings, chandeliers, statues and plaster plaques. La Martiniere was a miniature fortress, with ditches, stockades, secret passages and cannons. Claude Martin, who died in 1800 was, according to his will, buried there.
Martin had also willed that his Palace tomb should become a school for boys of all religions(he left money to open schools in Calcutta, and Lyons, his hometown in France, as well). La Martiniere, as he desired the school be named, was started in 1840. It was flourishing educational institution in 1857. However, during the Mutiny the school had to be evacuated and the principal and boys took refuge in the Residency.
The school was vandalized during the rebellion but vastly renovated in 1858. In 1932, the British Government decided to present the school with Battle Honours, for the supportive role of the students in the Residency. As La Martiniere prepares to celebrate its 200th anniversary in the year 2000, it retains the unique honour of being the only school in the world to have received Battle Honours.

The foundation of king George Medical College and Hospital was laid in 1906 at the old site of Machhi Bhawan. The new building was declared open by Sir John Hevette in 1912. Affiliated to Lucknow University since 1921, this center of medicine has added to the prestige of the city.

The grandiose architecture of Charbagh Railway Station enthralls a visitor at the onset. Built at a cost of Rs.70 Lakhs, its foundation was laid by Bishop Saheb in March 1914, while the architect was Jacob Sahib.

Lucknow University made a modest beginning in 1864 as Canning high School at the behest of the elite class and the taluqdars of Lucknow, in one of the palaces of the Kaiserbagh complex. In 1905 Canning College acquired 90 acres of land on Badshah Bagh, in which the grand University building was completed in 1911. The University was earlier affiliated to Calcutta and Allahabad Universities. it was accorded independent status in 1922.

This was created by Jacob Saheb in 1908 as a memorial to queen Victoria built of white makrana marble it was located in Victoria Park, now known as Begum Hazrat Mahal Park. The memorial was built at a cost of Rs.1.30 lakhs, of which the statue alone cost Rs.41,502.

In 1922, the foundation stone of this grand building was laid by Sir Harcourt Butler. Made of Mirzapur sandstone, it took six years to complete. The octogonal-shaped chamber has a domed roof decorated with peacocks in full plumed splendor.