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.
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
City: Richmond
Date: 1975
Architect: Minoru Yamasaki
County: City of Richmond
Aquia Church
City: Stafford
Date: 1751-57
Architect: Mourning Richards, Contractor and William Copein, Mastor Mason
County: Stafford
Piney Grove at Southall’s Plantation
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1790; enlarged 1850
Architect: unknown; John Stubblefield
County: James City
Photo courtesy of Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Stonewall Jackson House
City: Lexington
Date: 1801
Architect: Cornelius Dorman
County: Rockbridge
Jamestown Fort
City: Jamestown
Date: 1607
Architect: Virginia Company
County: James City
Springdale
City: Mathews County
Date: 1750
Architect: William Respess, Dr. William Shultice
County: Mathews
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Ferguson Center for the Arts
City: Newport News
Date: 2005
Architect: Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company in association with Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects
County: Newport News
Image Credit: Robert Benson Photography
Mount Airy Plantation
City: Warsaw
Date: 1764
Architect: Col. John Tayloe II
County: Richmond
Orkney Springs Hotel, now The Virginia House Shrine Mont Conference Center
City: Orkney Springs
Date: 1853-76
Architect: unknown
County: Shenandoah
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Patrick Henry’s Scotchtown
City: Beaverdam
Date: unknown
Architect: Col. Charles Chiswell
County: Hanover
Image Credit: Preservation Virginia
Alexander Black House and Cultural Center
City: Blacksburg
Date: 1897/2013
Architect: Alexander Black/ Restoration by Glavé & Holmes
County: Montgomery