The Château de Maintenon grew from a 13th-century keep into a château rebuilt in the 17th century for Madame de Maintenon, the second wife of Louis XIV, who bought the estate in 1674. The infobox names André Le Nôtre as architect, but the text credits him only with the main parterre. The article names no architect for the château.
A main corps de logis flanked by three round towers and two wings frame the cour d'honneur, with a moat fed by the Eure. The text names no single style or materials. Vauban's aqueduct was meant to carry water about 50 miles (80 km), but the text says both that it was built from 1685 to 1690 and that war prevented its completion.
The château was listed as a monument in 1944. The interior is restored and open to visitors, but the article gives no hours.
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