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

Villa in the Judges’ and Public Prosecutors' district. The ashlar stone basement and the bay window on the lower floor maintain the memory of the original building.

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City of Budapest and the Hungarian Mortgage Bank, the Mayor and the Technical Department of the City. The Public Services Department participated by alleviating the process of parcelling, thus allowing intelligent families to acquire a home in a highly salubrious sector of the town centre, and to enjoy its aesthetic, financial and sanitary advantages. This 36,000 square metre sector of land is composed of two parts, the lower and the upper settlement, divided in the middle by a plot which could not be acquired.

The lower settlement starts by Kékgolyó street and comprises 15 parcels of around 1000 square metres each. 530-square-metre plots, 31 altogether, make up the upper-settlement.

Aladár Árkay designed and supervised the construction of thirty-seven, mostly two-storey villas.[...\ Construction began in August 1911, a first group of villas was ready to be occupied by May 1912, the remainder in August, while the homes of a few late-comers were finally completed in the month of November of the

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