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

the smaller twenty-five, the dimensions of the rooms on the first floor of the Harkányi mansion at No. 4 Andrássy út (designed by Petschacher and erected a few years later) reached fifty-five square metres for the largest, thirty- five for the more modest, and twenty-five or thirty as far as the garret rooms on the back of the third floor were concerned. The plot on which the Weninger Villa was originally built measured 950 square metres before it was extended first to 1440, and finally 2030 square metres. The garden of the Csengery Villa nearby was 3200 square metres, while the Kochmeister Villa on Budakeszi út was surrounded by a park of five Hungarian acres, that is nearly 30,000 square metres.

The first four villas on Andrássy út were built by the Avenue Building Society expressly in order to provide a model for the following sites. One of the villas on the last plot of the even side, planned by the Stuttgart architect Adolf Gnauth, was in some degree more luxurious than the others. Its parcel measured 3280 square metres, and six of the sixteen rooms of the building exceeded the size of thirty square metres even if none of them was larger than forty. This villa, known under the name of its later owner Edelsheim-Gyulai, had modest dimensions if compared to the Siegle Villa planned by Gnauth in Stuttgart, but still presented a sharp contrast to the

The Edelsheim-Gyulai Villa was too ostentatious for Budapest standards. It was pulled down in 1941, and an apartment house was built instead.

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