The inhabitants of Kosice built a new theater and rebuilt the cathedral of St.Elizabeth into the neo-Gothic style. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Art Nouveau style appeared; it was applied to create romantic and historical facades. A system of suburbs, known as "glacis", was developed in the 19th century. In 1912, the Art Nouveau City Hall was built as focal point at the end of a boulevard running parallel with the old High Street. Kosice became a significant administrative, cultural and educational center of eastern Slovakia before mid-the 20th century.
Large blocks of flats were constructed, new banks, post offices, the radio-broadcasting station, blocks of flats in Stara Bešeňova, and schools as well as a modern Roman Catholic sacred building, the Queen of Peace Church. At this time the first negative interferences in the urban structure of the city appeared - such as the new Baťa shoe-store. Large pre-fabricated blocks of flats built around the town center were an answer to the rapid industrial development and the rising population in the 1960s - 1970s. Many of the big, bulky solitary buildings were set directly into the center of rows of historical houses interfering with the urban structure of the city. In general, in spite of them, Kosice has preserved the historical atmosphere of Hlavna (High) Street and the circular avenues intact as well as the intimacy of the narrow lanes situated next to the former city walls.
The most significant historical, architectural, and art-historical structures of the town are situated in the center of the large, spindle-shaped square.
The declaration of the historical center of the town, an Urban Preservation Area, in 1981 was a result of the effort to save the historical environment of Kosice.
The Names of Soldiers killed in action in the 1st WW burried in Kosice Municipal Cemetery
