Architect of FRI Dehradun

Can you tell me in detail about the Architecture of FRI or Forest Research Institute in Dehradun? Also provide me the contact detail of FRI or Forest Research Institute in Dehradun?

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The FRI or Forest Research Institute in Dehradun caters, in particular, to the research needs of the Indo-Gangetic plains of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi and Western Uttar Pradesh, as Well as the U.P. Himalayas. Forest research at the FRI is organized under fourteen divisions.

Architecture

Established as Imperial Forest Research Institute in 1906, Forest Research Institute (FRI) Dehradun, is a premier institution under the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE).

Styled in Greeko Roman Architecture by C.G. Blomfield, the main building is a National Heritage which was inaugurated in 1929. Its building also houses a Botanical Museum

It is one of the oldest institutions of its kind and acclaimed the world over. It is built over a lush green estate spread over 450 hectares, with the outer Himalaya forming its back drop, its main building is an impressive edifice, marrying Greco-Roman and Colonial styles of architecture, with a plinth area of 2.5 hectares.

It has a developed infrastructure of all equipped laboratories, library, herbarium, arboreta, printing press and experimental field areas for conducting forestry research, quite in keeping with the best of its kind anywhere in the world.

It also contains a museum on forestry. It is open from 9:30am to 5:00pm daily. There are six sections in the museum:
1. Pathology Museum
2. Social Forestry Museum
3. Silviculture Museum
4. Timber Museum
5. Non-Wood Forest Products Museum
6. Entomology Museum


Contact Detail:
Forest Research Institute,
P.O. New Forest- Dehradun (India)
Fax :+91 135-2756865
Telephone : (+91 135-2755277)