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.
St. John’s Episcopal Church
City: Richmond
Date: 1740-41
Architect: unknown
County: City of Richmond
Brentsville Courthouse
City: Bristow
Date: 1822
Architect: William Claytor
County: Prince William
Allied Arts Building
City: Lynchburg
Date: 1931
Architect: Stanhope S. Johnson and Addison Staples
County: Lynchburg
USA Today Building and Gannett Building
City: Arlington
Date: 2001
Architect: Kohn Pendersen Fox Associates
County: Fairfax
Aquia Church
City: Stafford
Date: 1751-57
Architect: Mourning Richards, Contractor and William Copein, Mastor Mason
County: Stafford
The Birthplace at Hampden-Sydney College
City: Hampden-Sydney
Date: 1750
Architect: Nathaniel Venable
County: Prince Edward
Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library
City: Virginia Beach
Date: 1988
Architect: Design Collaborative Architects
County: Virginia Beach
Woodlawn
City: Alexandria
Date: 1800
Architect: Dr. William Thornton
County: Fairfax
Rice’s Hotel/Hughlett’s Tavern
City: Heathsville
Date: 1795
Architect: John Hughlett
County: Northumberland
Reston Town Center
City: Reston
Date: 1990
Architect: Sasaki and RTKL
County: Fairfax
Barboursville
City: Barboursville
Date: 1822
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Orange
United States Marine Corps War Memorial
City: Arlington
Date: 1954
Architect: Edward F. Neild, Felix de Weldon (Sculptor)
County: Arlington
