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.
LumenHAUS, Virginia Tech
City: Blacksburg
Date: 2009
Architect: Center for Design Research, Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design, CAUS
County: Montgomery
City/ Farmer’s Market
City: Petersburg
Date: 1787
Architect: Maj. B.J. Black
County: Petersburg
Christ Episcopal Church, Scuffle Hill
City: Martinsville
Date: 1905
Architect: unknown
County: Martinsville
Pope Leighey House
City: Alexandria
Date: 1939
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
County: Fairfax
Forbes Center for the Performing Arts, James Madison University
City: Harrisonburg
Date: 2010
Architect: Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company
County: Rockingham
Image Credit: Robert Benson Photography
Center for Innovative Technology
City: Herndon
Date: 1989
Architect: Ward Hall Associates and Arquitectonica
County: Fairfax
Lynchburg Courthouse and Monument Terrace
City: Lynchburg
Date: 1855
Architect: Andrew Ellison, Jr.
County: Lynchburg
Liberia Plantation
City: Manassas
Date: 1825
Architect: Harriett Bladen Mitchell Weir and William James Weir
County: Prince William
Virginia Museum of the Civil War/ Hall of Valor
City: New Market
Date: 1969
Architect: William Ward Moseley, Moseley Architects
County: Shenandoah
Rotunda, University of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1819
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Albemarle
Peyton Randolph House
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1715-1782
Architect: William Robertson
County: James City