Palais Schönborn-Batthyány
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, which is the home to the United States Embassy to the Czech Republic, see Schönborn Palace (Prague)
Schönborn Palace (Prague)
The Schoenborn Palace in the Mala Strana district of Prague is the current home of the United States Embassy to the Czech Republic. The first United States Minister to Czechoslovakia was Richard Crane, a Chicago plumbing millionaire...
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Palais Schönborn-Batthyány is a Baroque
Baroque architecture
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palace
Palace
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in Vienna
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, Austria
Austria
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. Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
----Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, born Johann Bernhard Fischer was probably the most influential Austrian architect of the Baroque period....
built it around 1699-1706 for count Adam Batthyány
Batthyány
Batthyány is the name of an old distinguished Hungarian Magnate family. The members of this family bear the title count or countess respectively prince or princess Batthyány von Német-Ujvár...
. In 1740 his widow sold the Palais to the noble Schönborn family.