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.
Orkney Springs Hotel, now The Virginia House Shrine Mont Conference Center
City: Orkney Springs
Date: 1853-76
Architect: unknown
County: Shenandoah
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
War Memorial Chapel and Pylons, Virginia Tech
City: Blacksburg
Date: 1951-60
Architect: Roy F. Larson, of Harbeson, Hough, Livingston, & Larson
County: Montgomery
Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind
City: Staunton
Date: 1846
Architect: Robert Cary Long, Jr., Baltimore
County: Staunton
Bremo Historic District (Upper Bremo, Lower Bremo, Bremo Recess)
City: Bremo Bluff
Date: around 1808-45
Architect: General Hartwell Cocke
County: Fluvanna
Inn at Hans Meadow
City: Christianburg
Date: unknown
Architect: James Craig
County: Montgomery
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
Hermitage
City: Norfolk
Date: 1895
Architect: William and Florence Sloane
County: Norfolk
Image Credit: Virginia.org
Elsing Green
City: King William
Date: 1690
Architect: William Burnett
County: King William
Stiles Residence
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1969
Architect: Carlton Abbott
County: James City
Hollins University, Front Quadrangle
City: Roanoke
Date: 1839
Architect: OW Brown and DC Yates
County: Roanoke