F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 1996/1. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 1996)

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and 1845. Father Alexander was an energetic organizer and promoted church building in the New World. He paid special attention to the construction of St. Alphonsus' Church ( 1842-1846) in Baltimore, the city where he had his seat. The architect of the church, Robert Cary Long, worked closely with him. It is obvious to assume that Alexander Czvitkovicz commissioned him to prepare designs for his relative back in Hungary. Long was, incidentally, well-versed not only in church building but also in the design of houses and cottages, not least as a result of his contact with Alexander Jackson Davis, the foremost American specialist in the field. The Bagolyvár is a Tudor-style, castellated building with an asymmetrically set tower. Its style was, though coming through American meditation, ultimately English-inspired. In the 1840s similar structures went up in other parts of Hungary, most of them works of foreign architects. They marked the beginning of a new period in Hungarian architecture, that of Romantic Historicism. Research for this article was done by the author in part in the United States as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (Washington, D.C.).