Vinton Manor (Jack-Manning Farm)

Vinton is a two-story white brick house with three interior chimneys. The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as an example of Greek Revival architecture. Clear features of this architectural style include a shallow hip roof, entrance porch with Doric columns, rectangular transom with three muntins, and side lights by the double doors. The layout of the house is four rooms on each main level with a central hall, plus basement and attic. A standout feature of the house is the doorway between the entrance hall and stair hall that is topped by a semi-circular fanlight and flanked with full-length shutters.

Vinton was constructed around 1840 for prominent planter Robert Jacks, although it may have been built closer to 1830. Jacks married Julia Davenport whose immediate family was highly involved in local politics. Their daughter, Rebecca Jacks, married Thomas J. Manning and the Manning family continued to own Vinton at least into for more than 150 years. The family held the property when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. In 2003 a developer bought the house and surrounding property and a private family purchased Vinton in 2012. They are in the process of restoring the house. 

“National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Jacks-Manning Farm.” Accessed October 29, 2020. http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/jefferson/84003594.pdf.