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.
Martha Washington Inn
City: Abingdon
Date: 1832
Architect: Gen. Francis Preston
County: Washington
Chatham Manor
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1768-1771
Architect: William Fitzhugh
County: Pittsylvania
Fredericksburg Courthouse
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1814-16
Architect: James Renwick, Jr.
County: Fredericksburg
Mead’s Tavern
City: New London
Date: 1763
Architect: Col. William Mead
County: Campbell
Springdale
City: Mathews County
Date: 1750
Architect: William Respess, Dr. William Shultice
County: Mathews
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Mount Vernon
City: Alexandria
Date: 1757-78
Architect: George Washington
County: Fairfax
Virginia House
City: Richmond
Date: 1925
Architect: Alexander and Virginia Weddell
County: City of Richmond
Ferguson Center for the Arts
City: Newport News
Date: 2005
Architect: Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company in association with Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects
County: Newport News
Image Credit: Robert Benson Photography
Monumental Church
City: Richmond
Date: 1814
Architect: Robert Mills
County: City of Richmond
Historic Kenmore
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1775
Architect: Fielding Lewis
County: Fredericksburg
Boykin’s Tavern
City: Isle of Wight
Date: 1790
Architect: Col. Francis Boykin
County: Isle of Wight