Vienna's Ringstrasse, built at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, is often viewed as a mere string of monumental buildings. It is overlooked that large sections also served representative living, especially the nobility, upper class and entrepreneurship at the turn of the century. Their magnificent palaces were mostly representative company headquarters, as well as corresponding residences for the owners. Rental apartments in these palaces for the upper class were also part of the utilization concept. Famous Ringstrasse architects such as Theophil Hansen, Heinrich Ferstel and Emil Förster created not only public buildings such as the Neue Hofburg, the Museum of Art and Natural History, the State Opera, the Burgtheater, the Parliament, the town hall and the university, but also the Ringstrasse Palace for families Epstein, Todesco or Ephrussi.