Gábor Eszter: Andrássy Avenue – Our Budapest (Budapest, 2002)
■ The Megyer Krauiz Matuion (No. 12 And rá ay út) decoration of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.) The proprietor, Lajos Krausz of Megyer (1843—?) inherited, as did Frigyes Harkányi, a fortune from his father, but he took an active part in the country's economics and sat in parliament in the 1880s. The major floor of the building was occupied by his residence. Indicating the status of the building was the fact that one of the apartments was rented in 1892 by state secretary of agriculture Ödön Miklós until his villa was built in Délibáb utca. For decades, the building housed offices, those of the Ministry of the Interior most recently. Restorations have recently been made to it, when its sgraffiti-decorated courtyard was covered with a glass top. Today it is occupied by Budapest Bank. More frequent than apartment mansions were simple blocks of flats, such as the one standing on the corner of Káldy Gyula utca (No. 11 Andrássy út). The plot, with its 137 square fathoms (less than 600 square metres), smallish when compared to those mentioned above, was sold by the Board at a price of 480 forints per square fathom to Frigyes Kochmeister in 1882. Although the proprietor commissioned Adolf Feszty to make designs, Kochmeister built nothing in the end. Instead, in 1883 he re-sold the property to Dr Sándor Ullmann of Erény (1850 — 97), a lawyer, who employed Vilmos Freund to prepare the architectural designs. 16
