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

The bank was built between 1902 and 1905 according to the plans submitted. With the demise of the Monarchy, the Austro-Hungarian Bank closed down, and in 1924 was succeeded by the Hungarian National Bank (which took over its predecessor’s entire provincial network together with several significant bank buildings) nearly a hundred years after the first attempts at its establishment. The interior of the building underwent a major reconstruction after World War II, when the courtyard was covered after all for the purposes of a

Everywhere in the building the ceilings are covered with Art Nouveau stucco ornaments showing a wide variety of motifs

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