Zádor Anna: Neoclassical Pest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)

of one more storey to the originally two- or three-storey buildings to make better use of them.

Opposite one side of the palace of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences stands the two-storey Tänzer House (Akadémia u. 1-3) built by József Hild in 1836. There is a narrow balcony in front of its upper portico, which is decorated with seven giant columns and flanked by another four-window unit on each side. Its vestibule and courtyard were also executed with extreme care.

It was mainly Sas utca that was abundant in well- proportioned tenements erected by József Hild; in every one of them a vestibule usually articulated by a stuccoed ceiling provided a solemn entrance. The majority of the two-storey tenements in the area between the Basilica and the Chain Bridge were built by József Hild,

Tänzer House

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