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.
Shenandoah County Courthouse
City: Woodstock
Date: 1772
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Shenandoah
Smithfield Plantation
City: Blacksburg
Date: 1774
Architect: Col. William Preston
County: Montgomery
Coffee Pot Building
City: Lexington
Date: 1959
Architect: Kenneth Willis
County: Rockbridge
Image Credit: Roadside America
War Memorial Chapel and Pylons, Virginia Tech
City: Blacksburg
Date: 1951-60
Architect: Roy F. Larson, of Harbeson, Hough, Livingston, & Larson
County: Montgomery
Pohick Episcopal Church
City: Lorton
Date: 1772
Architect: George Washington or John Wren
County: Fairfax
Fort Chiswell Mansion
City: Fort Chiswell
Date: 1839-40
Architect: Stephen and Joseph Cloyd McGavock
County: Wythe
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Washington and Lee University Chapel
City: Lexington
Date: 1868
Architect: George Washington Custis Lee and Col. Thomas Williamson
County: Rockbridge
Harry T. Lester Hall, Eastern Virginia Medical School
City: Norfolk
Date: 2011
Architect: Ellenzweig with Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company
County: Norfolk
Image Credit: Peter Vanderwarker
St. Bede Catholic Church
City: Williamsburg
Date: 2002
Architect: Tom Kerns, Kerns Group Architects, P.C.
County: James City
Image Credit: Prakash Patel
Elsing Green
City: King William
Date: 1690
Architect: William Burnett
County: King William