Majorossy Judit (szerk.): A Ferenczy Múzeum Évkönyve 2014 - Studia Comitatensia 33., Új Folyam 1. (Szentendre, 2014)
Szentendre. Adalékok a Pajor család, a Pajor-kúria és a Ferenczy-család történetéhez - Martos Gábor: Két talált kép „megtisztítása”. Ferenczy Valér ismeretlen nagybányai művei egy magyarországi magángyűjteményből
Studia Comitatensia 2014 - Yearbook of the Ferenczy Museum - New Series 1 — English Summaries Levente Csomortány -Judit Gömöry The Building History of the Pajor Mansion in Szentendre. The Results of the Wall Investigations At the end of the eighteenth century the immovable estate on the parcel number 5 in (the present) Kossuth Lajos Street was the property of the Lovcsanszky family and at the very end of the century — due to a marriage with Ilona Lovcsanszky - Caspar Pajor became the owner. The wall investigation on the site identified that the earliest part of the building complex was its northern wing, which already in its first form could have been a two-storeyed house. Also in the eighteenth century, as a secondary structure of one storey, the eastern (street line) wing of the later mansion, the middle part of the present building between the two doorways, might have been built. These earliest edifices were altered by Caspar Pajor around 1800 in such a way that the two old wings were integrated into one, two-storeyed building and the inner division walls of the earlier houses were modified. The two (present) arched doorways of the building were constructed then, and with elevating the southern wing, the whole complex was transformed into one with a “U” ground plan. From Caspar Pajor’s time the high-standard classical wall painting was preserved in one room. After the father’s death in 1840 among his children Titus Pajor inherited the property. It might have happened in the mid-nineteenth century that the former open arcade with ancones was transformed into a closed corridor and, at the same time, several smaller modifications were conducted within the house. Nevertheless, the most significant and until today determining alternation of the whole building complex happened in 1903. The estate at that time was in the possessions of the Krausz family of Lubló (today L’ubovniansky hrad, Slovakia) from the Szepes (Zips) region whose coat of arms are still visible on the main street front that was formed then. During this major transformation, the level of the ground floor was significantly raised, the window and door frames were replaced, the stairways as well as the first floor of the northern wing were reshaped and the southern edge of the inner courtyard corridor was rebuilt. The western section as well as the column-and-baluster porch in front of the southern wing was also elevated at the time. The restorers’ investigation (as described in an other article) revealed the traces of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century, ornamental and geometric, stencil, decorative paintings. Around 1925 the building complex was taken over by the Reformed Church and it was used as a secondary school between 1928 and 1949. There are no sources about the alternations done due to this new function, and the investigation on the site was also able to identify only some marginal changes. The oft shifts in the function of the building after the state confiscation in 1949 did not leave their traces on the outlook of the mansion that had been formed in the early years of the twentieth century, thus serious transformation did not happen after the World War II. 260
