Károlyi Palace, Budapest (Reviczky Street)

For similarly named palaces, see Károlyi Palace.

Károlyi Palace is a 19th-century palace located at 6 Reviczky Street and 17 Museum Street in Palotanegyed, Budapest, Hungary. The palace was built in classicist and eclectic style by the Károlyi family.

Károlyi Palace
Károlyi-Csekonics-palota
Palotanegyed, Budapest, Hungary
The Palace, January 2004
Site information
Type	Palace
Owner	Government of Hungary
Location
Károlyi Palace Location of Károlyi Palace in Hungary
Coordinates	47°29′25.73″N 19°03′55.54″E
Site history
Built	1881, 1890
Built for	Károlyi family
Architect	Fellner & Helmer (1881) Arthur Meinig (1890)

History

The palace, also known as the Károlyi-Csekonics Palace, was built in 1881 for Count István Károlyi and his wife, Margit Csekonics [hu],^[1] and was designed by Viennese architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer.^[2][3]

The palace is located in the Palotanegyed neighborhood, in the 8th district of Budapest, on a plot between two streets, with a one-story façade on Museum Street (Hungarian: Múzeum utca) and a four-story façade on Reviczky Street (Hungarian: Reviczky utca), as well as a large inner courtyard. Inside, the wing on Museum Street has a hall, with works by Endre Thék, a courtyard entrance hall, coffered ceilings, and twisted columns. In the 1890s, the grand hall on Reviczky Street was reconstructed by Arthur Meinig.^[4]

Current use

The palace previously housed the Hungarian Government's Office of Public Administration and Justice. Between 2016 and 2020, the palace underwent a complete restoration,^[5] with the Museum Street wing converted into an event space and the Reviczky Street wing transformed into a modern educational unit for the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary.^[6][7]

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