Tilak purchased this estate from Shrimant Sayajirao Gaikwad Sarkar in 1905, and stayed here till he breathed his last in 1920. Tilak also housed the offices of his newspapers, Kesari and Maratha, in this place and renamed Gaikwad Wada as Kesari Wada. It holds its own importance in the history of Indian freedom struggle, as during Tilak’s residency, it was a place for night-long discussions among national leaders, concerned about overthrowing the tyrannical British rule over India.