Charlottenhof Palace was built from 1826 to 1829 for Crown Prince Frederick William, later Frederick William IV of Prussia. His father, Frederick William III, gave him the property as a Christmas gift in 1825. Karl Friedrich Schinkel designed it with his student Ludwig Persius. It stands on the foundations of an earlier farmhouse, and Peter Joseph Lenné designed the gardens.
The style is Neoclassical, modeled on a Roman villa. It has ten interior rooms, largely intact, and Schinkel designed most of the furniture. The tent room, styled after a Roman Caesar's tent, has blue-and-white striped wallpaper and a bed tent.
Alexander von Humboldt stayed in the tent room in the summers from 1835 to 1840. A foundation now administers the palace. UNESCO inscribed it in 1990 as part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
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