Sunday, May 10, 2009

Images fom the buildings on Blvd. 3 August 1919

Entering Fabric, one of the expansion "towns," you walk down a grand boulevard, lined on one side by the beautiful and historic "People's Park," and on the other by "palaces" or large apartment buildings. The buildings date from around the turn of the century, and their style is described as "eclectic." Each of the buildings has its own characteristic ornamentation, and as you proceed you discover these intricate and surprising images:



A face growing out of a column on No. 3.


A parade of "muses" on No. 5



And, strangest of all, a boat on No. 7. (This one is described somewhere as having been built by Miksa Steiner, 1907 and as "similar to the later Hungarian Naval Administration building in Budapest." Of course, as an explanation, this perhaps raises more questions than it answers. . . . )

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