Mannheim (Linville, Virginia)

{{short description|Historic house in Virginia, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Mannheim

| nrhp_type =

| designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register

| designated_other1_date = March 1, 2004{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|accessdate=5 June 2013}}

| designated_other1_number = 082-0005

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| image = Mannheim, Linville VA 2014-09-13.jpg

| caption =

| location = 4713 Wengers Mill Rd., near Linville, Virginia

| coordinates = {{coord|38|32|45|N|78|51|00|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Virginia#USA

| built = c. {{Start date|1788}}, c. 1855

| architect OR builder =

| architecture = Colonial, Greek Revival

| added = May 27, 2004

| area = {{convert|90|acre}}

| refnum = 04000553{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

Mannheim, also known as Koffman House, Kauffman House, and Coffman House, is a historic home located near Linville, Rockingham County, Virginia. It was constructed circa 1788 on a 360 acre plantation by David Coffman, a descendant of one of the first German settlers in the Shenandoah Valley. David Coffman named his masterpiece after the German city from which the Coffmans originated. Mannheim is a two-story, three-bay, stone Colonial style dwelling. It has a steep side gable roof with overhanging eaves and a central chimney. A two-story, Greek Revival style wood-frame ell with double porches was added to the rear of the dwelling about 1855. A front porch also added in the 19th century has since been removed. Also on the property are the contributing two brick slave quarters, a log smokehouse, an office, a chicken shed, and the ruins of a stone spring house. The house is representative of vernacular German architecture of the mid-to-late 18th century, as constructed in America.{{cite web|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Rockingham/082-0005_Mannheim_2004_Final_Nomination.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mannheim |author=Jennifer Bunting Hallock|date=August 2003|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Rockingham/Rockingham_Mannheim_photographs_page.htm Accompanying four photos]

Mannheim was occupied by successive generations of the Coffman family until 1880. In the mid-1990s Mannheim was purchased by a James Madison University professor who restored it to its 18th-century appearance. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.