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. Peter’s Church
City: New Kent
Date: 1703
Architect: Builder-Col. Joseph Foster
County: New Kent
The Nathalie P. and Alan M. Voorhees Archaearium
City: Historic Jamestowne Island
Date: 2006
Architect: Carlton Abbott, Carlton Abbott and Partners, P.C.
County: James City
Center for Innovative Technology
City: Herndon
Date: 1989
Architect: Ward Hall Associates and Arquitectonica
County: Fairfax
Bath Houses at the Warm Springs Pools
City: Warm Springs
Date: 1761
Architect: unknown
County: Bath
Stiles Residence
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1969
Architect: Carlton Abbott
County: James City
Monticello
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1770
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Albemarle
Alexander Black House and Cultural Center
City: Blacksburg
Date: 1897/2013
Architect: Alexander Black/ Restoration by Glavé & Holmes
County: Montgomery
Western State Hospital
City: Staunton
Date: 1828
Architect: William Small, Baltimore
County: Staunton
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Harry T. Lester Hall, Eastern Virginia Medical School
City: Norfolk
Date: 2011
Architect: Ellenzweig with Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company
County: Norfolk
Image Credit: Peter Vanderwarker
Center for the Arts, Virginia Tech
City: Blacksburg
Date: 2013
Architect: Snøhetta
County: Montgomery