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.
Paramount Theater
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1931
Architect: Rapp & Rapp
County: Albemarle
Broad Street Station/Science Museum of Virginia
City: Richmond
Date: 1919
Architect: John Russell Pope
County: City of Richmond
Image Credit: Sean Dewitt Photography
Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
City: Winchester
Date: 2005
Architect: Michael Graves
County: Winchester
Montpelier
City: Orange
Date: 1780-83
Architect: Frances Taylor and Ambrose Madison
County: Orange
Red Hill (Patrick Henry’s Law Office)
City: Brookneal
Date: Originally 1794- 1799 (Image: approx. mid 1930’s)
Architect: unknown
County: Charlotte
Barboursville
City: Barboursville
Date: 1822
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Orange
Central National Bank – Branch
City: Richmond
Date: 1929-30
Architect: John Eberson
County: City of Richmond
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Wickham House/Valentine Richmond History Center
City: Richmond
Date: 1812
Architect: Alexander Parris
County: City of Richmond
Green Spring *ruin
City: James City
Date: 1643
Architect: Sir William Berkeley
County: James City
Pentagon
City: Arlington
Date: 1941
Architect: G.E. Bergstrom and DJ Witmer
County: Arlington
