It sits on the Corner of 1st and Church Streets in Phoenix, Oregon and was built on the corner of one of the first donation land claims in the area belonging to Samuel Colver.
McManus sold the home back to the Colver family in about 1857 for the use of the widow and children of Samuels deceased brother Hiram.
Patrick F. McManus then went on the gold strike in Yreka, California, served as a sutler during the Modoc War and was killed in the Yreka area while driving a team and hauling mail.
The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, through the research of Barbara Bateman.
It was included in the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1934, done during the Works Progress Administration.