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.
Christ Church
City: Irvington
Date: 1735
Architect: “Robert “”King”” Carter”
County: Lancaster
Brooks Hall, University of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1876
Architect: John R. Thomas
County: Albemarle
Hampton Roads Convention Center
City: Hampton
Date: 2005
Architect: HOK (Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum)
County: Hampton
Miles B Carpenter Folk Art Museum
City: Waverly
Date: 1890
Architect: unknown
County: Sussex
Salem Museum/Williams-Brown House
City: Salem
Date: 1837/ 2010
Architect: William C. Williams/ Jennifer Smith Lewis
County: Salem
Mount Vernon
City: Alexandria
Date: 1757-78
Architect: George Washington
County: Fairfax
Bremo Historic District (Upper Bremo, Lower Bremo, Bremo Recess)
City: Bremo Bluff
Date: around 1808-45
Architect: General Hartwell Cocke
County: Fluvanna
Green Spring *ruin
City: James City
Date: 1643
Architect: Sir William Berkeley
County: James City
Agecroft Hall
City: Richmond
Date: 1926-27
Architect: Thomas C. Williams, Jr.
County: City of Richmond
John Paul Jones Arena
City: Charlottesville
Date: 2003
Architect: VMDO Architects
County: Albemarle
Wren Building, College of William and Mary
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1695-1702
Architect: Sir Christopher Wren
County: James City
National D-Day Memorial
City: Bedford
Date: 2001
Architect: Byron Dickerson, Dickerson Architects and Associates
County: Bedford
