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.
Ridgemont Hospital – Floyd County Historical Society Museum
City: Floyd
Date: 1913
Architect: Lather Hylton
County: Floyd
The Iron Fronts (Stearns and Donnan-Asher Iron Front Buildings)
City: Richmond, 1007-1013 E. Main St and 1207-1211 E. Main St
Date: 1869
Architect: Franklin Sterns
County: City of Richmond
Christ Episcopal Church, Scuffle Hill
City: Martinsville
Date: 1905
Architect: unknown
County: Martinsville
Long Branch Plantation
City: Millwood
Date: 1810-11
Architect: Benjamin Henry Latrobe
County: Clarke
Sweet Briar House
City: Sweet Briar
Date: 1790
Architect: Crews (or Crouse) family
County: Amherst
Fort Chiswell Mansion
City: Fort Chiswell
Date: 1839-40
Architect: Stephen and Joseph Cloyd McGavock
County: Wythe
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Farmers Bank of Virginia
City: Petersburg
Date: 1817
Architect: unknown
County: Petersburg
Image Credit: Preservation Virginia
Governor’s Palace
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1706-20
Architect: Henry Cary
County: James City
Christ Episcopal Church
City: Winchester
Date: 1828
Architect: John Bruce
County: Winchester
United States Marine Corps War Memorial
City: Arlington
Date: 1954
Architect: Edward F. Neild, Felix de Weldon (Sculptor)
County: Arlington
