Versailles (house)

Versailles is an 85,000 square-foot house belonging to Westgate Resorts founder David Siegel and his wife Jackie Siegel. It is under construction at 6121 Kirkstone Lane, Windermere, Florida, in the gated community of Lake Butler Sound in Orange County, Florida. Named and modeled after the Palace of Versailles in France, the completed project will be one of the largest single-family homes in the United States. It is designed as the primary residence of the Siegels and their children.
History.
Construction began in 2004. Work stalled in 2009 with 60% completed as Siegel's company encountered financial difficulties. The house was subsequently listed for sale at $65 million. With Westgate Resorts' improved finances as of 2013, Siegel now owns the property outright and construction has resumed. Completion was scheduled for 2016, although the completion date has been pushed back to at least 2019. Expected to appraise at over $100 million, the project will be the fourth most expensive house in the United States.
Design.
Constructed on a man-made hill on 10 acres of lakefront property, the residence will include 11 kitchens, 14 bedrooms, three indoor pools, two outdoor pools, a video arcade, a ballroom with a 500 to a 1,000 person capacity, a two-story movie theater with a balcony inspired by the Paris Opera House, a 20,000-bottle wine cellar, an exotic-fish aquarium, two tennis courts, two lane commercial grade bowling alley, a baseball diamond, a formal outdoor garden, and an elevator in the master bedroom closet. Because the Siegels' children are older now, modifications to the original plans included turning playrooms into a yoga studio and a teenager’s cave with a second movie theater.
Doors and windows are constructed using some of the last remaining, legal Brazilian mahogany at a cost of $4 million; cut before the Brazilian government banned trade in big-leaf mahogany, in 2001. Exterior walls are precast concrete with Pavonazzo marble veneer.
Documentary.
The home and its owners were the subject of the 2012 documentary film "The Queen of Versailles" as well as an episode of CNBC's "Secret Lives of the Super Rich".