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

■ The

Fackh Villa (No. 117 Andrássy

út)

central lobby. "Following from the very nature of a boarding home, every /service, other than regular mea/a, ía

included

in the rent here," announced a contemporary description. After World War II, the building functioned as a Party hostel and as a diplomatic guest house. During recent restorations, the building has been converted into a hotel.

Károly Fackh's

curious, spire-topped, three-storey villa (Rezső

Ray,

1880) disappeared without a trace from No. 117. The same fate befell the villa across the avenue at No. 122 (Emil Unger, 1873), which was demolished as early as 1908 to clear the spot for the extravagant new edifice to be built for Gyula

Jánosi Engel

(Kármán and

Ullmann), which was then fatally damaged in the war.

The side-street coming up here, which is called Rippl-Rónai

utca today,

originally bore the name of Bulyovszky utca.

The

villa with two storeys at the front and three at the back standing at its corner (No. 124 Andrássy

út, Sándor Fellner, 1885) once belonged to the notorious actress Lilia Bulyovszky (1833— 1909), wife of revolutionary patriot Gyula

Bulyovszky.

The villa, which was anything but modest, boasted gables, spires and rich sculptural decoration. The latter disappeared in time, as did the statue representing the owner dressed up as

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