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.
Broad Street Station/Science Museum of Virginia
City: Richmond
Date: 1919
Architect: John Russell Pope
County: City of Richmond
Image Credit: Sean Dewitt Photography
Exchange Building/ Siege Museum
City: Petersburg
Date: 1839-41
Architect: Mr. Berrien
County: Petersburg
nTelos Wireless Pavilion, Downtown Mall
City: Charlottesville
Date: 2005
Architect: Bill Lenart, FTL Design Engineering and Tim Thiel, SPEC Technologies
County: Albemarle
Image Credit: Philip Beaurline
Mansion on Main (Thomas House)
City: Smithfield
Date: 1889
Architect: unknown
County: Isle of Wight
Hollin Hills
City: Alexandria
Date: 1946, 1956-71
Architect: Charles W. Goodman
County: Fairfax
Photo by Clarissa Peterson
Ronald Reagan National Airport Expansion
City: Arlington
Date: 1997
Architect: Cesar Pelli
County: Arlington
Belle Grove Plantation at Port Conway
City: Port Conway
Date: 1790
Architect: unknown
County: King George
Image Credit: Chamberlin Photography
Shockoe Slip
City: Richmond
Date: 1865-70
Architect: various
County: City of Richmond
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Currie House
City: Blacksburg
Date: 1961
Architect: Leonard Currie
County: Montgomery
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Allied Arts Building
City: Lynchburg
Date: 1931
Architect: Stanhope S. Johnson and Addison Staples
County: Lynchburg
Manassas Park Elementary School
City: Manassas Park City
Date: 2009
Architect: VMDO Architects
County: Manassas
Liberia Plantation
City: Manassas
Date: 1825
Architect: Harriett Bladen Mitchell Weir and William James Weir
County: Prince William