Built in 1796 by one of the area's first settlers, it is a rare high-quality example of Federal period architecture in the rural interior of the state.

[1] The Manor House is located on the south side of United States Route 302, several miles north of the town center of Naples, at a location that would have historically had a view of Long Lake to the north.

The house is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a low-pitch hip roof, brick side walls, clapboarded front and back walls, and a stone foundation.

[2] The house was built in 1796 by George Peirce, one of Naples' first settlers.

The house he built is of unusually high quality for the period in interior Maine (29 miles (47 km) from the coast).