Kolczyn, also known as Kolczyno Małe, belonged to the Tański family in the 20th century: in 1909 to Antoni Tański, and in the late 1920s to Henryk Tański. The estate at the time consisted of 570 hectares. The wooden mansion was probably built in the second half of the 19th century, one-story, covered with a gable roof, with a one-story risalit in the central part. The painter and pioneer of press photography Jan Ryszard Okniński, hosted by the Tanskis, spent his last years there. He studied at the Warsaw Drawing Class under Wojciech Gerson and at the Munich academy. He painted scenes of village life, country manor, many scenes with horses, as well as landscapes and numerous portraits, which were popular (including Portrait of Antoni Tański, circa 1922). He died in Kolczyn in 1925.
