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.
USA Today Building and Gannett Building
City: Arlington
Date: 2001
Architect: Kohn Pendersen Fox Associates
County: Fairfax
Wessynton
City: Alexandria
Date: 1973
Architect: Nicholas Pappas, Diegert and Yerkes, AIA
County: Fairfax
Peyton Randolph House
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1715-1782
Architect: William Robertson
County: James City
Handley Library
City: Winchester
Date: 1908-13
Architect: J. Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman, New York
County: Winchester
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Paramount Theater
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1931
Architect: Rapp & Rapp
County: Albemarle
Hermitage
City: Norfolk
Date: 1895
Architect: William and Florence Sloane
County: Norfolk
Image Credit: Virginia.org
Central National Bank – Branch
City: Richmond
Date: 1929-30
Architect: John Eberson
County: City of Richmond
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Mary Washington House
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1770
Architect: unknown
County: Fredericksburg
Image Credit: Washington Heritage Museums
Tuckahoe Plantation
City: Richmond
Date: 1730-40
Architect: Randolph Family
County: Richmond
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Jamestown Fort
City: Jamestown
Date: 1607
Architect: Virginia Company
County: James City
Old First Baptist Church
City: Richmond
Date: 1876
Architect: Thomas U. Walter
County: City of Richmond
Image Credit: Photo by Crazyale