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.
Wessynton
City: Alexandria
Date: 1973
Architect: Nicholas Pappas, Diegert and Yerkes, AIA
County: Fairfax
Branch House/Virginia Center for Architecture
City: Richmond
Date: 1916-19
Architect: John Russell Pope
County: City of Richmond
Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary
City: Alexandria
Date: 1775-92
Architect: unknown
County: City of Alexandria
Virginia State Capitol
City: Richmond
Date: 1785-92
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: City of Richmond
Belle Grove Plantation
City: Middletown
Date: 1797
Architect: Major Isaac Hite
County: Frederick
Manor House at Smith’s Fort
City: Surry
Date: 1751 to 1765
Architect: unknown
County: Surry
Image Credit: Preservation Virginia
Montpelier
City: Orange
Date: 1780-83
Architect: Frances Taylor and Ambrose Madison
County: Orange
Shirley Plantation
City: Charles City
Date: 1738
Architect: John Carter
County: Charles City
Sweet Briar House
City: Sweet Briar
Date: 1790
Architect: Crews (or Crouse) family
County: Amherst
Ridgemont Hospital – Floyd County Historical Society Museum
City: Floyd
Date: 1913
Architect: Lather Hylton
County: Floyd