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.
Chrysler Museum of Art
City: Norfolk
Date: 1933, 1965, 1974, and 1989
Architect: Peebles and Ferguson (1933), William and Geoffrey Platt (1965), Williams and Tazewell (1974), Hartman – Cox (1989)
County: Norfolk
Ridgemont Hospital – Floyd County Historical Society Museum
City: Floyd
Date: 1913
Architect: Lather Hylton
County: Floyd
Rippon Lodge
City: Woodbridge
Date: 1747
Architect: Richard Blackburn
County: Prince William
Inn at Hans Meadow
City: Christianburg
Date: unknown
Architect: James Craig
County: Montgomery
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Egyptian Building
City: Richmond
Date: 1845
Architect: Thomas Stewart
County: City of Richmond
Martha Washington Inn
City: Abingdon
Date: 1832
Architect: Gen. Francis Preston
County: Washington
Burruss Hall, Virginia Tech
City: Blacksburg
Date: 1936
Architect: William Carneal and J. Ambler Johnston, Carneal, Johnston, and Wright, Architects and Engineers
County: Montgomery
Byrd Theatre
City: Richmond
Date: 1928
Architect: Fred Bishop
County: City of Richmond
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Shirley Plantation
City: Charles City
Date: 1738
Architect: John Carter
County: Charles City
Manor House at Smith’s Fort
City: Surry
Date: 1751 to 1765
Architect: unknown
County: Surry
Image Credit: Preservation Virginia
Rice House
City: Richmond
Date: 1962-65
Architect: Richard Neutra with Thaddeus Longstreth
County: Henrico