Gouripur House

Location

Gouripur House is located at a distance of around 2 kilometre from town on the way to Durpin Dara. Though Kalimpong was a small hill station, but still was favourite place of the great Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore. On visiting the destination, he stayed at Gouripur House. On 25th April, 1940, it was from this house that he recited the poem "Janamadin". It was done through a telephone system installed in this house that was linked with the All India Radio, located in Kolkata. In addition, he wrote several poems while residing in this house. His last visit to this house was on 28th September, 1954 after which he never returned.