Krusper utca: Discovering a New Street in Buda

We have been in Budapest about a week and a half.  Mostly we have settled in, gotten our stride back, and revisited favorite streets and restaurants.  It is lovely to have the city so familiar to us.  We feel as though we are returning to somewhere we almost "live," rather than as "tourists."  However, it is also nice to find new things.  (And already we have discovered a great new restaurant!)  Since we have been here for so many years, we are not unceasingly shocked by the new things we have seen.  Even though when we go back to familiar favorites, we often see something new.  However, we now count it a special treat when we discover something really new--as we did today.

Krusper utca is a short street (about 5 buildings per side) in the bottom of Buda: near Bartok Bela ut and Gellert ter.  This is a part of the city rich in architecture and we have been all over it.  But we had never been on Krusper utca, which turned out to be a set of treasures.

The first house we saw on Krusper utca at no. 10 was built in 1907 by someone named Fedor Csak Janos, about whom the internet is basically silent.  It is a pretty house, in a conventional Art Nouveau manner with pretty girls and garlands of flowers and nice ironwork.

Its neighbor, 6-8, also by Feodor, this one built in 1909, is of the same style but a little plainer.

So far fun, but nothing thrilling.  We got a little closer at the last house on the even numbered side of the street, no. 4.  This building by Miakits Karoly and Szabo Jeno was built in 1910, and it starts to hint at changes in style of Budapest buildings of the time.

It has Art Nouveau animals, but encloses them in geometric shapes, indicative of later trends.  (The building's stucco finish is badly restored.)

But it had the most beautiful door, complete with squirrels, hinting of what the building must have once looked like.  

Then we turned to the other side of the street.

Here at Krusper utca 3 is a building by (well-known) architect Porgesz Jozsef, built 1909-1910.  And while it doesn't look like that much at first glance, it features squirrels and owls in all their geometric complexity!

To go along with all the other geometric features

Even to the lock on the door.

A brief glimpse of the inside.

 Next door was Krusper utca 5-7 by Nagy Sandor in 1908-1909.

t has all sorts of beautiful abstract wavy lines, a beautiful blend of art nouveau and Jugendstil.

Inside

It was a beautiful day, topped off with a little lunch at the Hadik Haus restaurant.

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