Szablyár Péter: Step by step - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2010)
Spiral stairs cast in iron
speeding stag. This is the Stag House. Research conducted by Edit Szentesi (2009) has uncovered the history of the house. It has come to light that this miraculously surviving house is one of the last of the Mohicans from the Tabán district cleared away in the 1930s. It has always housed some kind of restaurant, café or bakery (The Stag Café, the Golden Stag bakery), but its favourable location made it attractive to artisans, too, looking for a place to rent for their various businesses. The terrace added to the restaurant in the front preserves the former street level as well as the original function. In 1892 a resolution was passed to broaden and level out the "Buda boulevard”. The ground level outside the house was lowered by two metres, leaving the level of the section to the right of the gate with a restraining wall and some steps unchanged while digging out the basement wall on the left thus opening the section up for shopfronts. The old stone-framed gate was left in place, but a smaller entrance was opened within it. The building received its current shape in the monument reconstruction of 1959; since then the gate marks the original street level. According to plans drawn by Imre Imrényi Szabó and Irén Lipták, the old gateway was opened up completely and the level-marking terrace was extended to the gate. ■ The Main mark the Mreet level of yore 68
