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.
J. Sidna Allen Home
City: Fancy Gap
Date: 1911
Architect: Design by J. Sidna Allen and wife. Built by Preston Dickens
County: Carroll
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Blue Ridge Tunnel aka Crozet Tunnel
City: Rockfish Gap
Date: 1858
Architect: Claudius Crozet, Engineer
County:
Hereford Residential College, University of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1992
Architect: Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
County: Albemarle
Photo © Ben Lunsford
Historic Kenmore
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1775
Architect: Fielding Lewis
County: Fredericksburg
Reynolds Homestead
City: Critz
Date: 1843
Architect: Hardin Williams Reynolds
County: Patrick
Virginia Museum of the Civil War/ Hall of Valor
City: New Market
Date: 1969
Architect: William Ward Moseley, Moseley Architects
County: Shenandoah
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
Scottsville Elementary School Addition
City: Scottsville
Date: 1984
Architect: VMDO Architects
County: Albemarle
Wilton House
City: Richmond
Date: 1750-53
Architect: William Randolph III
County: City of Richmond
MacArthur Memorial
City: Norfolk
Date: 1847- 1850- originally as Norfolk County Courthouse, converted to MacArthur Memorial 1964
Architect: William R. Singleton (Courthouse): Wm. & Geofrey Platt (Memorial), Walter Hancock, Sculptor
County: Norfolk
Westover Plantation
City: Charles City
Date: 1730-34
Architect: William Byrd, II
County: Charles City