Mr. Mahoney came to Arizona as an Irish immigrant, worked the western mines until 1912.

He came to Kingman and became the Mohave County Sheriff from 1918 to 1926 and he lived in the house from 1919 to 1927.

He left Kingman in 1927 and continued in public office till 1967.

It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.

This article about a property in Arizona on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.