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.
Rising Sun Tavern
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1760
Architect: Charles Washington
County: Fredericksburg
White House of the Confederacy
City: Richmond
Date: 1818
Architect: Robert Mills
County: City of Richmond
Paramount Theater
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1931
Architect: Rapp & Rapp
County: Albemarle
Boykin’s Tavern
City: Isle of Wight
Date: 1790
Architect: Col. Francis Boykin
County: Isle of Wight
Byrd Theatre
City: Richmond
Date: 1928
Architect: Fred Bishop
County: City of Richmond
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Center for the Arts, Virginia Tech
City: Blacksburg
Date: 2013
Architect: Snøhetta
County: Montgomery
Brentsville Courthouse
City: Bristow
Date: 1822
Architect: William Claytor
County: Prince William
Burruss Hall, Virginia Tech
City: Blacksburg
Date: 1936
Architect: William Carneal and J. Ambler Johnston, Carneal, Johnston, and Wright, Architects and Engineers
County: Montgomery
Hermitage
City: Norfolk
Date: 1895
Architect: William and Florence Sloane
County: Norfolk
Image Credit: Virginia.org
Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library
City: Virginia Beach
Date: 1988
Architect: Design Collaborative Architects
County: Virginia Beach
Rice’s Hotel/Hughlett’s Tavern
City: Heathsville
Date: 1795
Architect: John Hughlett
County: Northumberland