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.
Agecroft Hall
City: Richmond
Date: 1926-27
Architect: Thomas C. Williams, Jr.
County: City of Richmond
Duke Hall School of Art & Art History Renovation, James Madison University
City: Harrisonburg
Date: 2013
Architect: Clark Nexsen – Architect of Record; GUND Partnership – Design Architect
County: Rockingham
White’s Mill
City: Abingdon
Date: 1790
Architect: unknown
County: Washington
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Inn at Hans Meadow
City: Christianburg
Date: unknown
Architect: James Craig
County: Montgomery
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Mead’s Tavern
City: New London
Date: 1763
Architect: Col. William Mead
County: Campbell
Westover Plantation
City: Charles City
Date: 1730-34
Architect: William Byrd, II
County: Charles City
National Museum of the Marine Corps
City: Triangle
Date: 2004-06
Architect: Fentress-Bradburn Architects
County: Prince William
Ridgemont Hospital – Floyd County Historical Society Museum
City: Floyd
Date: 1913
Architect: Lather Hylton
County: Floyd
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
St. John’s Episcopal Church
City: Richmond
Date: 1740-41
Architect: unknown
County: City of Richmond
Stiles Residence
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1969
Architect: Carlton Abbott
County: James City