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.
Model Tobacco Building
City: Richmond
Date: 1938-40
Architect: Schmidt, Garden and Erikson
County: City of Richmond
Western State Hospital
City: Staunton
Date: 1828
Architect: William Small, Baltimore
County: Staunton
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Ker (Kerr) Place
City: Onancock
Date: 1799-1803
Architect: unknown
County: Accomack
Tredegar Iron Works
City: Richmond
Date: 1837
Architect: Reev. Davis and others
County: City of Richmond
Martha Washington Inn
City: Abingdon
Date: 1832
Architect: Gen. Francis Preston
County: Washington
Orkney Springs Hotel, now The Virginia House Shrine Mont Conference Center
City: Orkney Springs
Date: 1853-76
Architect: unknown
County: Shenandoah
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Ash Lawn-Highland
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1799
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Albemarle
Ridgemont Hospital – Floyd County Historical Society Museum
City: Floyd
Date: 1913
Architect: Lather Hylton
County: Floyd
Chelsea Plantation
City: West Point
Date: 1709
Architect: Augustine Moore
County: King William
Lee Hall Mansion
City: Newport News
Date: 1848-59
Architect: Richard Decatur Lee
County: Newport News
Monumental Church
City: Richmond
Date: 1814
Architect: Robert Mills
County: City of Richmond