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.
Chapel of the Centurion (Memorial Chapel)
City: Hampton
Date: 1856
Architect: Richard Upjohn
County: Hampton
Mount Airy Plantation
City: Warsaw
Date: 1764
Architect: Col. John Tayloe II
County: Richmond
Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1772
Architect: unknown
County: Fredericksburg
Image Credit: Washington Heritage Museums
Bedford Hall Addition and Renovation, Longwood University
City: Farmville
Date: 2013
Architect: HGA Architects and Moseley Architects
County: Prince Edward
Center for the Arts, Virginia Tech
City: Blacksburg
Date: 2013
Architect: Snøhetta
County: Montgomery
Virginia House
City: Richmond
Date: 1925
Architect: Alexander and Virginia Weddell
County: City of Richmond
Stonewall Jackson House
City: Lexington
Date: 1801
Architect: Cornelius Dorman
County: Rockbridge
Stoneleigh
City: Stanleytown
Date: 1929-31
Architect: Leland McBroom (Tinsley and McBroom
County: Henry
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Barboursville
City: Barboursville
Date: 1822
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Orange
Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library
City: Virginia Beach
Date: 1988
Architect: Design Collaborative Architects
County: Virginia Beach