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.
Washington and Lee University Chapel
City: Lexington
Date: 1868
Architect: George Washington Custis Lee and Col. Thomas Williamson
County: Rockbridge
Riddick’s Folly House
City: Suffolk
Date: 1837
Architect: Mills Riddick
County: Suffolk
Attucks Theatre
City: Norfolk
Date: 1919
Architect: Harvery N. Johnson
County: Norfolk
Blue Ridge Farmhouse Addition
City: Washington
Date: 2000
Architect: Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, Architect
County: Rappahannock
Image Credit: Paul Warchol
Landmark Theatre
City: Richmond
Date: 1927
Architect: Marcellus Wright, Sr. and Charles M. Robinson
County: City of Richmond
Tuckahoe Plantation
City: Richmond
Date: 1730-40
Architect: Randolph Family
County: Richmond
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Sweet Briar House
City: Sweet Briar
Date: 1790
Architect: Crews (or Crouse) family
County: Amherst
Hampton Coliseum
City: Hampton
Date: 1968-70
Architect: A.G. Odell, Jr. and Associates
County: Hampton