Embassy of the United States in Budapest
The US Embassy in Budapest is the seat of the diplomatic mission of the United States of America (USA) in Hungary . An old building on Szabadság tér has served as the office since 1935 . The building was built in 1899 for the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce. It changed hands several times. In 1935 the American embassy moved from Árpád utca to its current location in the 5th district of Budapest .
During the Second World War, the embassy operated under the Swiss flag. From there, Carl Lutz saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from deportation. In 1946, the US acquired the building from the Hungarian government.
In The Great Escape , Kati Marton describes how her family was granted asylum in the American embassy before the popular uprising in 1956 and how an American diplomat brought her to freedom in Austria in 1957.
Cardinal József Mindszenty had also fled to the American embassy, which offered him refuge until 1971; his former apartment now serves as the ambassador's office.
Former TV producer Colleen Bell has been the ambassador since 2015 . Her predecessor was Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ′ 15 ″ N , 19 ° 3 ′ 6 ″ E