In 1790, he transferred a piece of land here, on the southern shore of Södra Djurgården, to the Spanish envoy Ignacio María del Coral y Aguirre.

However, Coral was brought back to Spain shortly after the death of Gustav III and the grand building plans were only partially carried out.

At Manhem, Pär Aron Borg founded the Institutet för dövstumma och blinda ('Institute for the Deaf-mute and Blind') in 1817.

The large Renaissance Revival institutional building was designed by the architect Johan Adolf Hawerman [sv].

The high towered central building contains a church hall that extends over two floors, the stairwell has stairs and railings in richly decorated cast iron.

After the teaching of deaf and hard of hearing children moved from the premises in 2011, the buildings were rented to an independent primary school, Campus Manilla.

Manillaskolan is a bilingual school for children and young people who are deaf, hard of hearing or have cochlear implants.

[8] The new school building was designed in 2004 by Brunnberg & Forshed Architects [sv] for the Stockholm Institute of Education with Akademiska Hus as the client.Carl Oscar Malm, the first Finnish educator of the deaf, founder of the first school for the deaf in Finland, and the father of Finnish Sign Language, attended Manillaskolan as a child.