Tapiku Manor

Tapiku in Põltsamaa parish, first mentioned in the later 17th century, belonged to the Pistohlkors family around 1800 and from the 1820s until 1919 to the Wahls, the last being Axel von Wahl. In the 19th century a simple but very long manor house with a half-hipped roof was built. After nationalisation the Pajusi rural municipality bought the house from the state, repaired it, and in the autumn of 1926 the Tapiku four-grade primary school began lessons there. The school closed in 1974 for lack of pupils. The house survives almost unchanged, with a windmill nearby, and a new owner has begun restoring it.