Schönborn Palace
Schönborn Palace, known in Czech as Schönbornský palác, is a Baroque former residence with a complex lineage that culminated in its role as the United States Embassy. The present palace, built between 1643 and 1656 by Rudolf von Colloredo on a site damaged in the Thirty Years’ War, later passed to the Schönborn family and acquired by the United States in 1925 after passing through ownership by Richard Teller Crane II. The first United States Minister to Czechoslovakia, Richard Crane, purchased the building at the end of World War I and sold it to the U.S. government in 1924 for $117,000, making it a diplomatic site. The palace’s connections to important figures—Franz Kafka living there in 1917, and later the lineage leading to Cardinal Christoph Schönborn—underscore its place in Prague’s cultural and political history. …
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