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.
Currie House
City: Blacksburg
Date: 1961
Architect: Leonard Currie
County: Montgomery
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
St. Andrews Catholic Church
City: Roanoke
Date: 1902
Architect: William P. Ginther, Akron, OH
County: Roanoke
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Bath Houses at the Warm Springs Pools
City: Warm Springs
Date: 1761
Architect: unknown
County: Bath
Hereford Residential College, University of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1992
Architect: Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
County: Albemarle
Photo © Ben Lunsford
Chatham Manor
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1768-1771
Architect: William Fitzhugh
County: Pittsylvania
Virginia House
City: Richmond
Date: 1925
Architect: Alexander and Virginia Weddell
County: City of Richmond
Pope Leighey House
City: Alexandria
Date: 1939
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
County: Fairfax
Handley Library
City: Winchester
Date: 1908-13
Architect: J. Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman, New York
County: Winchester
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Rice House
City: Richmond
Date: 1962-65
Architect: Richard Neutra with Thaddeus Longstreth
County: Henrico
The Boars’ Head Inn
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1834*/1965
Architect: Johnson, Craven & Gibson Architects, Charlottesville, Virginia
County: Albemarle
*The grist mill that serves as the foundation of the Inn was built in 1834. It was later dismantled and brought to the current site to serve as the “bones” of the current structure which was completed in 1965.
Image Credit: Rutherford Studios and Kristen Rose Photography (Exterior)
