The stucco Clinton P. Shipley house was built in 1913, architect unknown. The house, also known as the Kenneth Schultheis House, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places January 29, 1980.

Clinton Pardes Shipley, a printer, was born in Baltimore County, Maryland on May 1, 1851, the son of Lovelace Gorsuch Shipley (1804-1870) and Susan Davis (Eggleston) Shipley (1811- ). , and died in 1936. Clinton and Margaret A. McMillin were married in Mason City on November 17, 1875. Margaret A. (McMillin) SHIPLEY was born in 1853, and died in 1940. They were interred at Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery, Mason City.