Buda was built in 1861 and from 1863 was the home of noted silversmith Ernest Leviny and his family.

More about the Leviny family.

Read Dorothy Leviny's 1899 to 1920 Diary.


Complete with the family’s art and craft collections, furnishings and domestic effects, and set in 1.2 hectares of enchanting gardens, Buda is a unique record of this creative family who occupied it for the period of 118 years and conveys the feeling of a living house and garden in an authentic way.