Aavere was founded around 1770, split off from Kiltsi manor. At first it belonged to the Tiesenhausens, and from 1830 to the Harpes. Under Rudolf von Harpe one of Estonia’s most beautiful Gothic Revival manor houses was built here in 1877–1881: a stone house of one story in the middle and two at the ends, with three gables on its facade. The left one was a three-step gable with niches and recesses, while the right one ended in a pointed, turret-like structure crowned by a weather vane. From 1902 until 1919 the manor belonged to August Berendts.
