New York-palota, Budapest

New York Palace is the grand palace before you, an eclectic building created in 1894 as the headquarters of an insurance company, with rental homes included in its design. Its four-storey form belongs to historicist architecture, and the architects were Alajos Hauszmann, Flóris Korb, and Kálmán Giergl. The façade gives the building a ceremonial presence, while the scale of the structure makes its original institutional purpose easy to imagine.

After 1945, the building served as offices. Since 2006, it has operated as a luxury hotel, and since 2020 its name has been Anantara New York Palace Budapest Hotel. The most culturally celebrated feature is at street level: the New York Café, opened at the same time as the palace.

During the early decades of the twentieth century, its literary and artistic gatherings, along with editorial groups based there, gave the café an important place in Hungarian cultural history. As you take in the palace, connect its elaborate public face with that interior history: this was designed for business and residence, yet its café became a meeting place for writers and artists.