Veszter Gábor: Villas in Budapest. From the compromise of 1867 to the beginning of World War II - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1997)

Dr. Gáspár Tóth's villa was once probably the most harmonious building of the Judges' and Public Prosecutors’ district.

It has undergone significant transformation.

XII., Ráth György utca 42

The southern slope of Kis-Svábhegy near the Southern Railway Station, where a year ago you could only reach other parts of the city from Kékgolyó utca by working your way through impassable field tracks, has been overgrown by a most amazing little town composed of groups of houses varied in colour and size, and provided with macadam streets, water and sewage piping, electricity and gas. The 40 buildings of this delightful cottage settlement, which were occupied last August, offer a successful and practical answer to the city’s housing question (or at least as an experiment that should by all means gain widespread recognition). The settlement in question was created by the Hungarian Judges’ and Public Prosecutors’ Association.

The project was launched in 1910 by the chairman and the secretary-general of the association, Károly Grecsák and Dr. Dezső Márkus, both judges at the Supreme Court. The enterprise was supported with exemplary courtesy by the National Savings Bank of the

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