{"nrhp_refnum":"04000553","name":"Mannheim (082-0005)","other_names":["Vdhr 082-0005","Manheim","Koffman House","Coffman House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4713 Wengers Mill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Linville","county":"Rockingham County","state":"VA","lat":38.54670946550007,"lon":-78.8477657011372,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-05-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","European"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mannheim is a two-and-a-half-story coursed-limestone farmhouse at 4713 Wengers Mill Road, Linville, Rockingham County, Virginia, built circa 1788 by German settlers, with a circa 1855 rear ell and several farm outbuildings on about ninety acres.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Mannheim as a rare surviving example of early Germanic building traditions in the Shenandoah Valley, combining the flurkuchenhaus and kreuzehaus plans. Its balanced but non-symmetrical facade shows the growing influence of Georgian ideals on German settler architecture. The house also reflects later changes, including a Greek Revival ell added around 1855.","narrative":"Mannheim is a limestone farmhouse near Linville in Rockingham County, Virginia, built around 1788 by German settlers in the Shenandoah Valley. Three bays wide and two and a half stories tall, it is banked into a hillside and topped with a steep side-gabled metal roof. The house is known for its interior plan, which blends two Germanic traditions, the flurkuchenhaus and the kreuzehaus, with an off-center entrance hall, a formal parlor (stube), a kitchen (kuche) with a large cooking fireplace, and a rear hall (kammer). The exterior is non-symmetrical yet balanced, reflecting the spread of Georgian ideas. A two-story wood-frame ell in the Greek Revival style was added around 1855, and renovations followed around 1943 and 1997. The property once covered 360 acres and now holds ninety acres of farmland, with two brick slave quarters, a log smokehouse, an office, and other outbuildings. It was listed for its architectural value as an early German-influenced dwelling.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial: Germanic; Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling with agricultural outbuildings; the house was restored between 1997 and 2003.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.883694-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/6834/41683487/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/04000553.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000553/065b63fbd9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000553/065b63fbd9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kevin M. Byrne","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mannheim,_Linville_VA_2014-09-13.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin M. Byrne</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mannheim,_Linville_VA_2014-09-13.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683487","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannheim_(Linville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15245199"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/rockingham-county/mannheim-082-0005-04000553/"}