The building at 24 Karinthy Frigyes Street is a moderately decorated house designed by Jenő Schwarcz and Antal Horváth in 1914 with a spacious entrance hall trimmed with Zsolnay tiles. Old times are recalled by a hundred-year-old Secessionist mailbox also. Each storey was arranged into six apartments with the caretaker’s flat and the gatekeeper’s flat on the mezzanine floor and with the vice-caretaker’s home, two washing rooms and an ironing room on the top floor. The little room on the ground floor next to the elevator was the gatekeeper’s cabin. The building even had a central vacuum cleaner.

Tenants were from the middle-class representing various professions. Although the building is close to the center of the district today the area has preserved its suburban character.

As writer Ferenc Karinthy living next door writes: „Not a nice neighborhood, not even has a unified image. Objectively, I could not find anything special about it. But for those who live here it is variety that makes it interesting and attractive. It was peripheral, both a town and a village. Although Budapest has expanded vastly, it still preserved some of this character. The beauty and poetry of the suburban: this is the gift of the 20th century to Hungarian literature.”