Following information are collected through books and word of mouth from others.Vivekanandar House in chennai was earlier known as Ice House. In 1842 this building was constructed by Fredrik Tudor who was a British business man to store Ice Blocks. He used to import ice blocks and store it in this building. This building is situated just opposite to Marina Beach (Bay of Bengal). Later in 1880 this building was purchased by an advocate (Madras High Court) called Biligiri Iyengar and did some modifications as residential house.Meanwhile Swamy Vivekananda went to Chicago to participate in FIRST WORLDS PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS which was held in 11-Sep-1897. After the successful speech in Chicago, 4 years later he returned to India and reached Chennai in 06-Feb-1897, he was arranged to stay in this house. He was stayed here and delivered some speaches till 14-Feb-1897. 9 Days he has stayed here and Ramakrishna Mutt followers are celebrating those 9 days as (Navarathri). After years later in 1914 TN Govt took this building and used it for running a Training School.12-Jan-1963 was Birth Centinery of Swami Vivekananda and on that day TN Govt arranged some celebrations in this house where he himself stayed here for few days and remand this building as SWAMY VIVEKANANDAR ILLAM (VIVEKANANDA HOUSE) and gave lease to Ramakrishna Mutt to use this as Museum.

Nice place must go...

The great structure of elephants, lions at the swami vivekanandha statue

The place in which revolution began for jallikattu by the youth unforgettable memories forever

Nice and well maintained place.Still many of the people are not aware of this Vivekananda house while passing through the beach road.

Awesome

I visited this place 2nd time on 27.3.14. what a great man who think about others and nation not about him and family. I am proud to submit his statue photo which located in the Vivekanada house complex

Nice place to visit.saying beacuse it is the second place i visited after settling in tamil nadu. Well defined explanation of Vivekanandas past history...

Its was quite peaceful...

Great man statue also great

Well maintained, Tribute to Swami Vivekananda

Good tourist spot

Golden statue of Swami Vivekananda situated inside Vivekananda House.

A great place

Vivekananda stayed here during the visit to madras...

Must visit place.

Wonderful place

Vivekananda HomeVivekananda Home, ChennaiVivekananda Home is located in Chennai, Thiruvallikeni, the capital of Tamil Nadu. Although its old name is Ice House, the name is still in common use today. Swami Vivekananda stayed in this house for nine days in 1897. It is now one of the most important tourist destinations of Tamil Nadu.KattitamtokuBuilt in 1842 by Frederick Tudor, the founder of the Tudor Ice Company based in Massachusetts, USA. At the time, the building was used as a warehouse for shipping from Tudor Ice Company for the need of a foreigner in Chennai, hence the name Ice House. The building was later sold in India by Tudor Ice Company to Pilgiri Iyengar. Pilgiri Iyengar used this building as a mercy house for the poor and the illiterate. The building has three sites.Visit of VivekanandaSwami Vivekananda, who gave a historic speech in Chicago, USA, returned home from February 6 to 15, 1897. During his stay here, he performed nine famous speeches. Swami Vivekananda was then requested to start a Sri Ramakrishna Math in Chennai. Swami Vivekananda returned to Calcutta, where he sent Swami Ramakrishnananda, who was working at the Ramakrishna monastery. Led by Swami Ramakrishnanand alias Sasimakraj, the building was the first Ramakrishna monastery in South India.