Veszter Gábor: Villas in Budapest. From the compromise of 1867 to the beginning of World War II - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1997)

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Weninger Vince's villa was considered to be the most beautiful house on Andrássy út. Repeated transformation and extension despoiled it of its architectural decorations and completely upset its proportions.

VI., Andrássy út 126

This type of distribution - the service rooms in the basement, the public and entertaining sphere on the ground floor, and the private sphere with the personal rooms of the family on the first floor - can be considered as general throughout Europe. A kitchen or a bedroom placed on the ground floor were exceptional.

This general rule also characterises the first middle- class villas built at the beginning of the architectural boom in Budapest in the 1870s-80s, even if the buildings in question still had modest proportions. In the villa of bank manager Vince Weninger (Andrássy út 126, Gusztáv Petschacher, 1873 - repeatedly transformed since) probably the first of its kind built in Budapest, the ground floor was composed of a lounge, a dining room and two rooms of undetermined function; the bedroom and three other rooms could be found on the first floor, while kitchen and service rooms were placed in the base15