Lucerna Palace in Prague was designed by Stanislav Bechyně and built by Vácslav Havel, grandfather of Václav Havel. Construction ran from 1907 to 1921. The text calls the style late Art Nouveau with emerging Modernist features. It is reinforced concrete, one of the first such buildings in Prague. It was originally meant as a hockey stadium, but its dimensions were unsuitable, and it became a social hall.
The complex has a Great Hall, a Marble Hall, a music bar, a movie theater, a cafe and a pedestrian passage connecting Štěpánská and Vodičkova streets. It has one of 26 working paternoster lifts in Prague, and a statue called Kůň by David Černý stands inside.
It was listed as a cultural monument in 1976 and named a national cultural monument in 2017. The Havel family got it back in restitution after 1989. The infobox names Dagmar Havlová as owner, while the text says part-owner. The article gives no hours.
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