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.
Reston Town Center
City: Reston
Date: 1990
Architect: Sasaki and RTKL
County: Fairfax
Shirley Plantation
City: Charles City
Date: 1738
Architect: John Carter
County: Charles City
The Iron Fronts (Stearns and Donnan-Asher Iron Front Buildings)
City: Richmond, 1007-1013 E. Main St and 1207-1211 E. Main St
Date: 1869
Architect: Franklin Sterns
County: City of Richmond
Liberia Plantation
City: Manassas
Date: 1825
Architect: Harriett Bladen Mitchell Weir and William James Weir
County: Prince William
Stonewall Jackson House
City: Lexington
Date: 1801
Architect: Cornelius Dorman
County: Rockbridge
Blue Ridge Tunnel aka Crozet Tunnel
City: Rockfish Gap
Date: 1858
Architect: Claudius Crozet, Engineer
County:
Women In Military Service for America, Arlington National Cemetery
City: Arlington
Date: 1932/1992-97
Architect: William Mitchell Kendall (McKim, Mead and White)/ Michael Manfredi and Marion G. Weiss
County: Arlington
Image Credit: Carol Highsmith
Christ Church
City: Alexandria
Date: 1767-73
Architect: Col. James Wren
County: City of Alexandria
Bremo Historic District (Upper Bremo, Lower Bremo, Bremo Recess)
City: Bremo Bluff
Date: around 1808-45
Architect: General Hartwell Cocke
County: Fluvanna
Adam Thoroughgood House
City: Virginia Beach
Date: 1719
Architect: Argall Thorowgood
County: Virginia Beach
Governor’s Palace
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1706-20
Architect: Henry Cary
County: James City
St. Andrews Catholic Church
City: Roanoke
Date: 1902
Architect: William P. Ginther, Akron, OH
County: Roanoke
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources