It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013 as the Sigma Pi Fraternity House.

[1] Located in the Manville Heights neighborhood, Parish Apartments was built as a fraternity house for Sigma Pi in 1929.

The design for the three-story stone Tudor Revival structure is attributed to Madison, Wisconsin architect Myron Edwards Pugh.

Edna Mahan, a University of Iowa graduate, and president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, was instrumental in securing the building.

Robert Walter moved it to the former school building at St. Mary's Church and St. Thomas More became a territorial parish the following year.