Its original name was Štefan House. It was named after Štefan Šubic (1820–1884), artisan who came from the nearby village of Hotovlja and obtained the house by marriage in 1844, later he even enlarged it
There are few places and houses in the world to be praised in high literature. However, the Visoko Manor in the Poljane Valley is one of them, it boasts of the novel the Visoko Chronicle. In 1919, the novel was published by the writer Ivan Tavčar, who bought the Visoko Manor in 1895.