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

tral batter, whose allegorical sculptures were made by József Huber (1777-1832). There were few buildings in neoclassical Pest so richly adorned with sculptures.

If we look at the drawing by Rudolf von Alt, the genial harmony depicted on Apáczai Csere János utca from Vigadó tér to Petőfi tér deserves our attention. At that time this was the row of houses that looked out onto the Danube and the panorama of the Várhegy in Buda. It was only possible to build the predecessors of the present row of hotels after the quays of the Danube had been created. The one-time neoclassical row of houses did not consist of palaces but of quality tenements. Their owners were middle-class citizens, mainly from the world trade or the gradually growing industrial sector.

Of course, this row was also destroyed by time and events, however, some of its buildings still exist, to our great pleasure. The Kardetter House (Apáczai Csere J. u. 7.) is one of the earliest structures; it was built by Mihály Pollack for the often hired master carpenter in

Gycirky House

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