Kecskés Péter (szerk.): Upper Tisza region (Regional Units of Open Air Museum. Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 1980)

3. THE MUSEUM VILLAGE

when alterations were made. The ground-plan does not differ much from that of peasant houses except that its front has been divided. This makes it resemble the mansions in appearance. (111. 35.) Entering by the ante-chambre („tornác") into the kitchen („konyha"), the room for receiveing visitors („vizit-szwba") is on the right hand side, a pantry („kamra") behind it, whilst the door to the „back room" („hátsó szoba") is on the left. The little room now used as a pantry used to be a side room („oldal szoba") of the best room. (111. 36.). Alterations at the turn of the century not only changed the structure of the roof, but also changed the kitchen: the baking oven, which used to take up the whole back-part of the kitchen, was transfered to a bake-house built outside in the yard, and its open chimney was changed into a flat ceiling, thus having room for a door in the side wall. A cast-iron stove was placed in the best room, and there was a small portable cast-iron stove for cooking („csikó-masina") which could be placed in the kitchen or the back room, according to the season. In the Reform Period, and in the decades following, the style of the noble mansion was Classicist, which fitted in well with the 35. The house of Uszka facing the courtyard 49