The manor house was erected in the late 1830s to the early 1840s.[1] The first owner was the Scottish merchant John Louis Balfour who acquired the property from the von Stempel family, who owned the Padure estate and Turkalne Manor.[1] His eldest son, Alfon Balfour, managed the estate until the beginning of the 1920s.[1] After the Latvian Agrarian Reform was instituted, from 1922 the manor was managed by the government of Latvia.[2]
From 1 April 1923, a school was opened.[1] During the German occupation the manor served as a war hospital and after 1945, the buildings of the estate began to be used as an agricultural experimental station.[1] Until 2005, the manor housed the Padure parish library.[1]
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