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.
Hereford Residential College, University of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1992
Architect: Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
County: Albemarle
Photo © Ben Lunsford
Burruss Hall, Virginia Tech
City: Blacksburg
Date: 1936
Architect: William Carneal and J. Ambler Johnston, Carneal, Johnston, and Wright, Architects and Engineers
County: Montgomery
Jamestown Fort
City: Jamestown
Date: 1607
Architect: Virginia Company
County: James City
The Birthplace at Hampden-Sydney College
City: Hampden-Sydney
Date: 1750
Architect: Nathaniel Venable
County: Prince Edward
St. Bede Catholic Church
City: Williamsburg
Date: 2002
Architect: Tom Kerns, Kerns Group Architects, P.C.
County: James City
Image Credit: Prakash Patel
Wilderness Road Regional Museum
City: Dublin
Date: 1810-16
Architect: Adam Hance
County: Pulaski
Ferguson Center for the Arts
City: Newport News
Date: 2005
Architect: Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company in association with Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects
County: Newport News
Image Credit: Robert Benson Photography
Washington and Lee University Chapel
City: Lexington
Date: 1868
Architect: George Washington Custis Lee and Col. Thomas Williamson
County: Rockbridge
Mansion on Main (Thomas House)
City: Smithfield
Date: 1889
Architect: unknown
County: Isle of Wight
St. John’s Episcopal Church
City: Richmond
Date: 1740-41
Architect: unknown
County: City of Richmond
Polegreen Church
City: Mechanicsville
Date: 1743
Architect: Samuel Morris
County: Hanover