Gábor Eszter: Andrássy Avenue – Our Budapest (Budapest, 2002)
■ The RuMian Cmbaay (No. 104 Andrány út) it were. Preserved almost intact are traces of the original Erdődy Villa in the ground-floor and upstairs levels of the Andrássy út front. Even less survives of the other villas in the block. Badly damaged during the war, Nos. 106 and 108 have been demolished. No. no was modernised in 1900 by its new owner, master-builder István Pucher. No. 112 survived the war and housed the Young Artists’ Club for decades. The large salon of the former apartment hosted a large number of avant-garde events, exhibitions, concerts and literary soirées. A Greek restaurant operated in a shack erected in the front garden after which the building fell victim to the crudest alteration proving that trash is at home everywhere, even in Andrássy út, a place synonymous with high quality. The former Schanzer Villa at No. 101 Andrássy út is where the journalists’ Hungarian Press House has operated for decades. Raised in 1906, the building was the second structure to occupy the plot. The first one was built in 1883 to designs by Frigyes Feszi for master tailor Gyula Bányász. The only one in Sugárút built in neo-Romantic style, in many of its details the building echoed its designer's chef d'oeuvre, the Pest Vigadó. The Bányász Villa was pulled down in 1906 without a single photo preserving its memory. It is only the surviving blueprint that suggests what an enormous loss was sustained by the country's architecture. 46
