Voting for Virginia’s Favorite Architecture is now closed. Throughout the months of November and December 2013, the public was asked to select their favorites based on design, innovation, history, or the spirit of their communities and Virginia.
The Virginia Center for Architecture will announce the top 100 structures — Virginia’s Favorite Architecture — in an exhibition opening on April 10, 2014.
The structures featured in this survey were nominated by architects throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects in 2014. The 250 works of architecture — buildings, bridges, monuments, and memorials — in this survey represent some of the best of Virginia’s rich architectural heritage.
Maymont
City: Richmond
Date: 1890
Architect: Edgerton S. Rogers
County: City of Richmond
Image Credit: Anthony Sylvestro
St. John’s Episcopal Church
City: Richmond
Date: 1740-41
Architect: unknown
County: City of Richmond
Shockoe Slip
City: Richmond
Date: 1865-70
Architect: various
County: City of Richmond
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Westover Plantation
City: Charles City
Date: 1730-34
Architect: William Byrd, II
County: Charles City
Adam Thoroughgood House
City: Virginia Beach
Date: 1719
Architect: Argall Thorowgood
County: Virginia Beach
Old First Baptist Church
City: Richmond
Date: 1876
Architect: Thomas U. Walter
County: City of Richmond
Image Credit: Photo by Crazyale
Liberia Plantation
City: Manassas
Date: 1825
Architect: Harriett Bladen Mitchell Weir and William James Weir
County: Prince William
Virginia Beach Convention Center
City: Virginia Beach
Date: 2007
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
County: Virginia Beach
Reston Town Center
City: Reston
Date: 1990
Architect: Sasaki and RTKL
County: Fairfax
Berkeley Plantation
City: Charles City
Date: 1726
Architect: Benjamin Harrison
County: Charles City