Gresham Palace is an Art Nouveau building on the Danube in Budapest, next to Széchenyi Square and the eastern end of the Széchenyi Chain Bridge. Zsigmond Quittner and József Vágó designed it for the London-based Gresham Life Assurance Company, which acquired the site in 1880. Construction began in 1904, it was completed in 1906, and it opened in 1907.
It replaced Nákó House, a neoclassical palace of 1827. The building was an office block with residences for senior Gresham staff. After World War II it served as a Red Army barracks and then as apartments. In 1990 the national government transferred it to the city of Budapest.
Quinlan Private bought the building in 2001 and restored it as a luxury hotel, which reopened in June 2004. It is now the Four Seasons Hotel Budapest Gresham Palace, with 179 guest rooms.
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