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.
Landmark Theatre
City: Richmond
Date: 1927
Architect: Marcellus Wright, Sr. and Charles M. Robinson
County: City of Richmond
Virginia Military Institute Barracks
City: Lexington
Date: 1839
Architect: Alexander Jackson Davis
County: Rockbridge
Long Branch Plantation
City: Millwood
Date: 1810-11
Architect: Benjamin Henry Latrobe
County: Clarke
Miles B Carpenter Folk Art Museum
City: Waverly
Date: 1890
Architect: unknown
County: Sussex
Rice’s Hotel/Hughlett’s Tavern
City: Heathsville
Date: 1795
Architect: John Hughlett
County: Northumberland
Shirley Plantation
City: Charles City
Date: 1738
Architect: John Carter
County: Charles City
Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts Filene Center
City: Vienna
Date: 1984
Architect: Dewberry & Davis, John MacFadyen, Joseph Boggs
County: Fairfax
Image Credit: Chris Issak – Robert Boag (Top) , Dolly Parton – Scott Suchman (Bottom)
Belmead
City: Powhatan
Date: 1845
Architect: Alexander Jackson Davis
County: Powhatan
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Christ Episcopal Church, Scuffle Hill
City: Martinsville
Date: 1905
Architect: unknown
County: Martinsville
Riddick’s Folly House
City: Suffolk
Date: 1837
Architect: Mills Riddick
County: Suffolk
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)