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.
Hampton Coliseum
City: Hampton
Date: 1968-70
Architect: A.G. Odell, Jr. and Associates
County: Hampton
Belle Grove Plantation at Port Conway
City: Port Conway
Date: 1790
Architect: unknown
County: King George
Image Credit: Chamberlin Photography
Captain Timothy Hill House
City: Chincoteague
Date: 1800
Architect: unknown
County: Accomack
Rice House
City: Richmond
Date: 1962-65
Architect: Richard Neutra with Thaddeus Longstreth
County: Henrico
Berkeley Plantation
City: Charles City
Date: 1726
Architect: Benjamin Harrison
County: Charles City
United States Air Force Memorial
City: Arlington
Date: 2006
Architect: James Ingo Freed (Pei Cobb Freed and Partners)
County: Arlington
Belle Grove Plantation
City: Middletown
Date: 1797
Architect: Major Isaac Hite
County: Frederick
National Museum of the Marine Corps
City: Triangle
Date: 2004-06
Architect: Fentress-Bradburn Architects
County: Prince William
Monumental Church
City: Richmond
Date: 1814
Architect: Robert Mills
County: City of Richmond
Point of Honor
City: Lynchburg
Date: 1815
Architect: George Cabell Sr.
County: Lynchburg
White House of the Confederacy
City: Richmond
Date: 1818
Architect: Robert Mills
County: City of Richmond
Chapel of the Centurion (Memorial Chapel)
City: Hampton
Date: 1856
Architect: Richard Upjohn
County: Hampton