Sándor Márai's house
Building, structure
A one-story, 19th-century, eclectic-looking bourgeois residential building located in one of the less prestigious, NY-i streets of the medieval old town of Košice. The most striking element of its facade is the closed balcony above the entrance gate. The Grosschmid family moved into this house in 1915, including Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmid from Márai, whom world literature knows and respects under his writer's name as Sándor Márai. We can also read about his experiences here in the posthumous Kossuth Prize winner Márai's world-famous autobiography, Egy polgár vallomásai, written in 1934. (In fact, he hardly lived here, because from 1914 he was sent to a dormitory in Budapest, so he could only visit Košice during the holidays.) The house has been marked with a memorial plaque since 1991 and there is also a small Márai memorial room inside.