Gábor Eszter: Andrássy Avenue – Our Budapest (Budapest, 2002)

Jr. Identical in its internal divisions with the older villa, the new one had a modern, Art Nouveau appearance.

On the spot where the villa destroyed in the war had stood at No. 107 a block of freehold flats was built in the 1960s. At the same time similar blocks were erected on the plots at Nos. 117 and 122.

On the plot at No. 111 Andrássy

út there

stands, in appearance changed somewhat, a boarding house designed by Alfréd

Hajós in

1937, turning its main front towards Munkácsy

Mihály utca. The

original building standing here was a boys' orphanage run by the Jewish Community of Pest, built to plans by Zsigmond Quittner in 1880. The two-storey orphanage (which had four classrooms, four dormitories and dozens of auxiliary rooms) was virtually of the same size and proportions as the boarding house built in its place in 1937. (The builders of the new construction may well have used the surviving foundations of the old one.) The boarding house had become a popular type of building in Germany at the beginning of the century, which was there called Einküchenhaus,

or

onekitchen building. It comprised self-contained flats — 34 one-room and eight two-room apartments as the case here happens to be — each complete with a bathroom and a tiny cooking niche. What sets this type of accommodation apart from studio flats is that there was a central kitchen here, which served meals in the flats on request. (Tenants could also have their meals in the building's restaurant). There were lounges on each floor, which were linked to the

■ The Boardins house (No. ill Andrássy

út)

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