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.
Rising Sun Tavern
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1760
Architect: Charles Washington
County: Fredericksburg
Main Street Station
City: Richmond
Date: 1900-01
Architect: Wilson, Harris, and Richards Architects and Engineers
County: City of Richmond
Branch House/Virginia Center for Architecture
City: Richmond
Date: 1916-19
Architect: John Russell Pope
County: City of Richmond
Women In Military Service for America, Arlington National Cemetery
City: Arlington
Date: 1932/1992-97
Architect: William Mitchell Kendall (McKim, Mead and White)/ Michael Manfredi and Marion G. Weiss
County: Arlington
Image Credit: Carol Highsmith
Farmers Bank of Virginia
City: Petersburg
Date: 1817
Architect: unknown
County: Petersburg
Image Credit: Preservation Virginia
Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
City: Winchester
Date: 2005
Architect: Michael Graves
County: Winchester
Reynolds Metals Company Executive Office Building
City: Richmond
Date: 1958
Architect: Gordon Bunshaft (with SOM), Charles F. Gillette (Landscape architect)
County: Henrico
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Birthplace
City: Staunton
Date: 1846
Architect: Rev. Rufus W. Bailey
County: Staunton
Institute for Contemporary Art
City: Richmond
Date: unbuilt
Architect: Steven Holl
County: City of Richmond