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.
Old Coast Guard Station
City: Virginia Beach
Date: 1903
Architect: George R. Tolman
County: Virginia Beach
Chelsea Plantation
City: West Point
Date: 1709
Architect: Augustine Moore
County: King William
Rising Sun Tavern
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1760
Architect: Charles Washington
County: Fredericksburg
Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind
City: Staunton
Date: 1846
Architect: Robert Cary Long, Jr., Baltimore
County: Staunton
Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library
City: Virginia Beach
Date: 1988
Architect: Design Collaborative Architects
County: Virginia Beach
Robert M. Hughes Memorial Library/ Hughes Hall
City: Norfolk
Date: 1959
Architect: Edward Durell Stone
County: Norfolk
Ferguson Center for the Arts
City: Newport News
Date: 2005
Architect: Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company in association with Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects
County: Newport News
Image Credit: Robert Benson Photography
Attucks Theatre
City: Norfolk
Date: 1919
Architect: Harvery N. Johnson
County: Norfolk
nTelos Wireless Pavilion, Downtown Mall
City: Charlottesville
Date: 2005
Architect: Bill Lenart, FTL Design Engineering and Tim Thiel, SPEC Technologies
County: Albemarle
Image Credit: Philip Beaurline
Tredegar Iron Works
City: Richmond
Date: 1837
Architect: Reev. Davis and others
County: City of Richmond
Hollins University, Front Quadrangle
City: Roanoke
Date: 1839
Architect: OW Brown and DC Yates
County: Roanoke
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