[2] The Neo-Gothic style structure with Art Nouveau elements was designed by architect Wilhelm Ludwig Nicholas Bockslaff (1858-1945),[3] and built in 1901 as a hunting lodge for Mayor of Riga George Armitstead (1847-1912).

[4] George Armitstead owned the manor until 1904 when it was sold to the Brinken family.

During Latvian agrarian reforms in the 1920s the manor was nationalized and its lands partitioned.

During World War II a military hospital of the Wehrmacht was located in the building.

In 1976 the building was taken over by the Ministry of Forestry and Forest Industry and major restoration works started and as a result in 1989 the manor was turned into a museum.