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.
Belle Grove Plantation at Port Conway
City: Port Conway
Date: 1790
Architect: unknown
County: King George
Image Credit: Chamberlin Photography
Forbes Center for the Performing Arts, James Madison University
City: Harrisonburg
Date: 2010
Architect: Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company
County: Rockingham
Image Credit: Robert Benson Photography
Rippon Lodge
City: Woodbridge
Date: 1747
Architect: Richard Blackburn
County: Prince William
National Museum of the Marine Corps
City: Triangle
Date: 2004-06
Architect: Fentress-Bradburn Architects
County: Prince William
Assateague Lighthouse
City: Assateague Island
Date: 1867
Architect: unknown
County: Accomack
Shenandoah County Courthouse
City: Woodstock
Date: 1772
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Shenandoah
Blue Ridge Farmhouse Addition
City: Washington
Date: 2000
Architect: Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, Architect
County: Rappahannock
Image Credit: Paul Warchol
Green Spring *ruin
City: James City
Date: 1643
Architect: Sir William Berkeley
County: James City
Brentsville Courthouse
City: Bristow
Date: 1822
Architect: William Claytor
County: Prince William
Chrysler Museum of Art
City: Norfolk
Date: 1933, 1965, 1974, and 1989
Architect: Peebles and Ferguson (1933), William and Geoffrey Platt (1965), Williams and Tazewell (1974), Hartman – Cox (1989)
County: Norfolk
