Gábor Eszter: Andrássy Avenue – Our Budapest (Budapest, 2002)

spent but little time in Budapest. The Pallavicini Mansion had, as far as its history can be reconstructed, some very high-ranking occupants. It was here that the consulates of the German Empire and the French Republic operated in the 1890s, and it was used as the residence of such upper-house members as Count Iván Batthyány, Arthur

Pejacsevich, Count Gyula

Széchenyi and

Zsigmond Kornfeld. After

his resignation, the prime minister of the so-called guardsman government Baron Géza

Fejérváry lived

here for a while, too.

The building sustained serious damage during World War II. During its reconstruction, the builders tried to restore the exterior to its original form, but no similar intention emerged in connection with the interior, which was used by offices. For decades the Bridge Construction Company operated here. New restorations were made in the 1990s to the building, and the premises are now rented as office space.

The row of villas begins from Bajza

utca. Strict

regulations applied here prescribing that a distance of five fathoms has to be kept from the street and three fathoms have to separate adjacent buildings. When the country went decimal, the prescribed distance was reduced, nearly halved in fact, in time to five and three metres respectively. While very few three-storey houses were built in the beginning, their number grew after the turn of the century, when building rent■ The £rdody Villa -1877 (No. 104 Andráay

út)

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