| kezdi: Re: Polacsek | Andrew, I remember reading about a prominent Polacsek family in Szentes, Csongrád County, Hungary who came from Upper Hungary in the 19th century. Péter P. the patriarch was a wine merchant, later generations became doctors, changed religion and family name to Péter. Their house now is a museum, and known by different names, Péter Pál Ház, Polgárház=Middle Class Home, or Pál Péter Urban House. I looked up their website and the city's, and also a quote from the city history page: http://www.museum.hu/search/where_en.asp?ID=784
http://ww3.szentes.hu/
The Middle Class Home Museum
Several classicist, romantic and early ecclestic houses from the last century in the Sándor Petőfi Street (formerly Úri Street) are very important in the image of the town (no. 4., 5., 7-9., 11-14.). The classicist Pál Péter House (no. 9.) was built for a wine- merchant around 1830. It has a wagon-roofed cellar under its street wing. The Middle Class Home Museum, the local history collection of the József Koszta Museum got place here. The collection includes relics of local history, applied and fine arts, history of music and literature, small scale industry and trade of agricultural towns. The permanent exhibition displays the relics of the middle class way of living in the 19-20th century such as the furniture of the assimilated Jewish family of Péter Pollácsek from the turn of the century, or the surgery and music-book collection of a doctor, Pál Ottokár Péter in seven rooms. In the cellar of the house temporary exhibitions and performances are organized. (Open every day from 13 till 17 o'clock, except for Monday. Tel: 316-678)
I hope this adds to your family history. Sincerely, Joseph Laszlo Kupan from LA California |
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