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.
United States Air Force Memorial
City: Arlington
Date: 2006
Architect: James Ingo Freed (Pei Cobb Freed and Partners)
County: Arlington
Chatham Manor
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1768-1771
Architect: William Fitzhugh
County: Pittsylvania
Westover Plantation
City: Charles City
Date: 1730-34
Architect: William Byrd, II
County: Charles City
National D-Day Memorial
City: Bedford
Date: 2001
Architect: Byron Dickerson, Dickerson Architects and Associates
County: Bedford
Manor House at Smith’s Fort
City: Surry
Date: 1751 to 1765
Architect: unknown
County: Surry
Image Credit: Preservation Virginia
Carter’s Grove
City: James City
Date: 1750
Architect: David Minitree
County: James City
Forbes Center for the Performing Arts, James Madison University
City: Harrisonburg
Date: 2010
Architect: Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company
County: Rockingham
Image Credit: Robert Benson Photography
Chapel of the Centurion (Memorial Chapel)
City: Hampton
Date: 1856
Architect: Richard Upjohn
County: Hampton
Hereford Residential College, University of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1992
Architect: Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
County: Albemarle
Photo © Ben Lunsford
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
Brentsville Courthouse
City: Bristow
Date: 1822
Architect: William Claytor
County: Prince William