Gerle János: Palaces of Money - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1994)

THE BUILDING OF THE BUDA SAVINGS BANK AT THE CORNER OF Fö UTCA

and Adam Clark tér, designed by József Hild, has been destroyed

the upper floors behind the street-side facade there were elegant suites accessible from a circular stairway supported by a cast-iron structure located behind the corner dome. Ybl also designed the huge building to house the second branch office of the bank, erected on a plot between Baross utca and Múzeum utca near Kálvin tér. The apartment building of the bank was built 1872-74, and until his death Ybl himself lived there in a corner-suite overlooking the National Museum. (The building, damaged in the Second World War, was later demolished.)

The coronation ceremony that followed the AustroThe apartment house and branch office of the First Pest Domestic Savings Bank at Kálvin tér, designed by Miklós Ybl,

HAS BEEN DEMOLISHED

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