Schloss Wilhelminenberg in Vienna was designed by Eduard Frauenfeld and Ignaz Sowinski for Archduke Leopold Salvator, who had the dilapidated earlier building demolished. The infobox gives 1908 as the year built. The text says the old building was demolished in 1903 and the new palace was built in the years to 1908, without a start date.
The article calls the style Second Empire. It has 87 rooms in a park of 120,000 square meters, and construction cost 1.4 million kronen including the park. Materials are not stated. It stands on Gallitzinberg on the eastern slopes of the Wienerwald.
It became a military hospital in 1918, an orphanage in 1927 and the home of the Vienna Boys' Choir from 1934 to 1938. It reopened as a hotel in 1988. The article reports abuse of former residents, with settlements totaling 52.5 million euros. It now offers conference and wedding facilities. The article gives no hours.
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