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SField 
Recreating a palace like Versailles or Innsbrook would be incredibly difficult, and almost quite literally impossible.
The basic structure of these palaces would themselves be so incredibly expensive given that their scale often dwarfs that of even the biggest homes today. Enormous ceilings, beams of solid oak, walls a meter thick... then consider that there remain maybe a handful of artisans in the world who can do what many more could do in the time that the palaces were built. Just the time that it would take to build would make it prohibitive since you wouldn't have enough skilled people working to do it. Most the people alive today who can do that are involved primarily in restoration, and they command a massive price tag.
Giant columns of marble, acres of gold leaf... it just isn't possible. But it was explained to me that the ornaments wouldn't even be the real problem, nor even would be the artisanship (masonry, painting, marble sculpture, highly specialized carpentry), it would be the building techniques. These palaces last forever for a reason... they're built like absolute tanks.
actually with modern techniques and building tech, recreation may ot be possible to to create somting just a strong and long lasting is not problem. on the outside the place woudl appear to be a replica but it would not be.
structurally these types of mansion and palaces are not complex. the omplexity comes witht he interior work.
To put it in perspective it's a perfect square, so its as deep as it is wide. The flower area used to be on the inside but sometime in the 1800's it was knocked down due to the high cost of running the house. Until then it was second biggest house in Britain, with Buckingham palace taking first. The guy who owns it still lives there; he is a member of my flying club and a really nice guy.
