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

Csendilla is about the only classicist uilla to haue kept its authentic form. A wide flight of steps leads up to the four-pillar portico. Behind it the drawing room with a small room on each side.

II., Budakeszi út 73

An accurate description of the classicist summer house constructed around a central axis and equipped with a portico, a building type still in vogue in Pest during the 1870s, was given by Károly Szász in an article published in Vasárnapi Újság in 1880 about the house of Antal Csengery (J. Limburszky, 1864). This building stood until 1908 on plot No. 89 of Aréna út (today Dózsa György út 68) at the corner of what was to become Dembinszky utca.

The garden was nicelg growing as the house was being built. We are speaking about a summer residence of modest dimensions, yet offering a great deal of comfort thanks to its very practical internal arrangement. The east-oriented fagade opens on the thickets of the nearby wood, while its western counterpart faces the garden. A flight of eight or ten steps leads to a wide and spacious veranda on both sides of the house, which enables one to sit in the shade in both the mornings and the afternoons.

The verandas lead to a row of three rooms each, making six altogether; there is no need for more, for all household facilities (kitchen, larder, laundry, etc. ) are

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