Reportage: Archana Masih
Photograph: Jewella C Miranda

Fredrick Williams Stevens, an architect with the Public Works Department who designed the terminal, was 31 when work began on the building.

Before he died of malaria at 53, he had designed some of the city's best known buildings -- the old building at Churchgate, the sailor's home in Colaba, alleys in the General Post Office and offices near Flora Fountain.

Stevens was appointed a PWD engineer in India when he was 20. He had arrived from Bath -- one of Britain's most beautiful old cities which was declared a world heritage city in 1986 by UNESCO. Founded by the Romans and home to novelist Jane Austen, the city of Bath still looks much like what it must have during the celebrated novelist's time. If not for its cars.

Mira Nair shot Vanity Fair in Bath last year.

Little is known about Stevens. Barring snippets of information -- that his family lived here; that his son was also an architect; and that Stevens is buried in the Sewri cemetery in southcentral Mumbai.

A road near CST is named after him, and a documentary was made by architect-filmmaker Rajesh Latkar on his 100th death anniversary in 2000, but Stevens has long been forgotten.