The article says Sawai Jai Singh of Amber built the palace around 1699 as a duck-hunting lodge, not a royal residence. Maharaja Madho Singh I renovated and enlarged it in the mid-18th century. It names no architect or overall style. Features include arched passages and four octagonal chhatris at the corners of a terrace with a central garden.
It sits in the middle of Man Sagar Lake and is called five stories, though the lower stories are submerged when the lake is full, about 15 feet (4.5 m) deep. It is built of local pink and red sandstone, and rising damp damaged the plaster.
A 2004 agreement gave a private company a lease, listed as 99 years and later cut to 30 by the courts. Commercial work is inactive. The lower interior is closed to visitors, and a lakefront promenade runs nearby.
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