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

The arrangement of the six rooms originally composing Kálmán Szily’s villa was so practical that it still satisfied all demands fifty years after its construction. It was destroyed during the war. VI., Andrássy út 106

Looking back after an interval of more than a century, it is easy to perceive that the plots on Andrássy út were small sized because the life style of both extremities of middle class did not diverge significantly. The publicist Lajos Hevesi, who later acquired renown as chronicler of the Wiener Sezession, published in 1876 a small volume entitled Sketches from the Capital (Karcképek az ország városából), in which he described the new villas by the Avenue rather ironically. The Weninger Villa was one of the five already standing at the time of writing.

As for the five summer houses already completed in the neighbourhood of the City Park, describing them at any length appears to be perfectly superfluous as their construction did certainly not last very long either. These

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