Because of the political unrest of the period (March Revolution) and lack of funding, the gigantic project never materialized.

[1] The building, with its 300 meter long front, was built in the style of the Italian Renaissance, after the image of the Villa Medici in Rome and the Uffizi in Florence.

In front of the peristyle Elisabeth, Frederick William IV's wife, had a statue of the king erected in Memoriam after his death in 1861.

On the red silk covered walls, hang over fifty copies of Renaissance paintings and frescoes.

The atrium, a small building in middle of the compound, designed in the ancient style, was built on plans by Ludwig Persius in 1845.

The Sicilian Garden, with its palm tubs, myrtles, laurels, flowers, arcades, and fountains, runs southward.

Since 1990, the Orangery has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin".