#2 AVN College
Year: 1892
Location: Isaka Dibba, One Town
In accordance with the Will written by Sri Ankitam Venkata Narasinga Row, a famous Zamindar and the then Deputy Collector, the three executors – his son. AV Jaggarow, PT Srinivasa Iyengar, famous educationist and Willock, Irish gentleman and the then Collector of Vizag got approval from Government to take over the ailing Hindu College (formerly the Anglo-Vernacular school, founded in 1860) near Hindu Reading Room. It has been then renamed and shifted into the current sprawling building on a small hillock in One-town. Its alumni include geniuses, revolutionaries, artists, statesmen and men of great merit, including a Nobel laureate – Sir CV Raman, Sri Sri, Rachakonda Viswanatha Sastry, Alluri Ramaraju, SV Rangarao, Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, Adibhatla Narayanadasu, Sir CR Rao, Tenneti Viswanatham to name a few.
The building is a two-storey fort-like structure of open courtyards, continuous verandas with a buttressed porch of pointed arch openings, majestic staircases, and high-ceiling rooms built using dressed stone. Some buildings of contemporary variety have subsequently been added to accommodate the growing number of students in the complex.
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