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.
St. John’s Episcopal Church
City: Richmond
Date: 1740-41
Architect: unknown
County: City of Richmond
Christ Episcopal Church
City: Big Stone Gap
Date: 1890
Architect: T. Buckler Chequior
County: Wise
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Berkeley Plantation
City: Charles City
Date: 1726
Architect: Benjamin Harrison
County: Charles City
Blue Ridge Tunnel aka Crozet Tunnel
City: Rockfish Gap
Date: 1858
Architect: Claudius Crozet, Engineer
County:
Brentsville Courthouse
City: Bristow
Date: 1822
Architect: William Claytor
County: Prince William
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
Camden
City: Port Royal
Date: 1857-59
Architect: Nathan G. Starkwether
County: Caroline
Aquia Church
City: Stafford
Date: 1751-57
Architect: Mourning Richards, Contractor and William Copein, Mastor Mason
County: Stafford
Chapel of the Centurion (Memorial Chapel)
City: Hampton
Date: 1856
Architect: Richard Upjohn
County: Hampton
Alexander Black House and Cultural Center
City: Blacksburg
Date: 1897/2013
Architect: Alexander Black/ Restoration by Glavé & Holmes
County: Montgomery
Liberia Plantation
City: Manassas
Date: 1825
Architect: Harriett Bladen Mitchell Weir and William James Weir
County: Prince William
Tycon Towers
City: Vienna
Date: 1986
Architect: John Burgee Architects
County: Fairfax