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.
Westover Plantation
City: Charles City
Date: 1730-34
Architect: William Byrd, II
County: Charles City
White’s Mill
City: Abingdon
Date: 1790
Architect: unknown
County: Washington
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Long Branch Plantation
City: Millwood
Date: 1810-11
Architect: Benjamin Henry Latrobe
County: Clarke
Shirley Plantation
City: Charles City
Date: 1738
Architect: John Carter
County: Charles City
Green Spring *ruin
City: James City
Date: 1643
Architect: Sir William Berkeley
County: James City
United States Air Force Memorial
City: Arlington
Date: 2006
Architect: James Ingo Freed (Pei Cobb Freed and Partners)
County: Arlington
National D-Day Memorial
City: Bedford
Date: 2001
Architect: Byron Dickerson, Dickerson Architects and Associates
County: Bedford
Carter Hall Plantation
City: Millwood
Date: 1797
Architect: Harrie T. Lindeberg
County: Clarke
Pope Leighey House
City: Alexandria
Date: 1939
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
County: Fairfax
