Zádor Anna: Neoclassical Pest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)

circular galleries looking out onto the courtyards- proves how meticulous the craftsmanship of the period was. It is no surprise that the building became the home of distinguished institutions and inhabitants, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences among them, which was housed here from 1833 to 1863. In the courtyards of the Trattner House several workshops specializing in handicrafts operate even today, and the passageway serves as a short-cut for pedestrians. At one time it was opposite this building where Baron Brudern’s corner house, known as the Paris Arcade stood; it was constructed by Mihály Pollack in 1819 as a two-storey building with a covered row of shops inside. This was the first shopping centre in Pest, and even today there is a building here with a covered row of shops inside erected at the beginning of the century. We mention this

Würm House

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