During the Polish-Swedish rule, until 1674, the manor belonged to the von Rehbinder family.
Historical owners of the manor have been: 1674-1806 - District Magistrate Otto von Stackelberg; 1806-1819 - Friedrich Joachim von Oettingen; from 1819 until expropriation during the first Republic - the von Stryck family. The name of the manor comes from the name von Stackelberg.
The stone manor house we can see today was built in 1907-1912. The proprietor, Hugo von Stryk, spared no expenses. The manor house had 75 rooms, each with different coloured wallpaper and its own name. The weather vane on top of the tower bears a crescent and some stars (the Baroness was Turkish).
From the outside, the building is almost totally asymmetrical. The extravagant, archaic art nouveau style has also been transmitted to the interior. Fireplaces covered in dark stone slabs make the interior even more impressive. There were long disputes over who was the architect of the Taagepera manor house. It has now been determined that it was designed by the Riga architect Otto Wildau (1873-1942).
There are many historical monuments in the vicinity of the manor house. By the side of a road, northwest from the Taagepera manor, is a cromlech (an ancient Estonian burial place). 1,5 km (1 mile) south from the Manor, in the forest, is the cromlech called the "Site-of-a-Church", mistaken for an ancient site of a church. Some of the tombs date from the first millennium.
