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.
Shenandoah County Courthouse
City: Woodstock
Date: 1772
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Shenandoah
Belle Grove Plantation at Port Conway
City: Port Conway
Date: 1790
Architect: unknown
County: King George
Image Credit: Chamberlin Photography
Rising Sun Tavern
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1760
Architect: Charles Washington
County: Fredericksburg
Landmark Theatre
City: Richmond
Date: 1927
Architect: Marcellus Wright, Sr. and Charles M. Robinson
County: City of Richmond
Wickham House/Valentine Richmond History Center
City: Richmond
Date: 1812
Architect: Alexander Parris
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
The Homestead Hotel
City: Hot Springs
Date: 1766, 1901-1902
Architect: Warren and Wetmore, Cincinnati, OH
County: Bath
Sweet Briar House
City: Sweet Briar
Date: 1790
Architect: Crews (or Crouse) family
County: Amherst
Historic Kenmore
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1775
Architect: Fielding Lewis
County: Fredericksburg
Freemason Street Baptist
City: Norfolk
Date: 1850
Architect: Thomas U. Walter
County: Norfolk
Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village, University of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1819
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Albemarle
Virginia Museum of the Civil War/ Hall of Valor
City: New Market
Date: 1969
Architect: William Ward Moseley, Moseley Architects
County: Shenandoah