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.
The Iron Fronts (Stearns and Donnan-Asher Iron Front Buildings)
City: Richmond, 1007-1013 E. Main St and 1207-1211 E. Main St
Date: 1869
Architect: Franklin Sterns
County: City of Richmond
Belvedere Gardens Mausoleum
City: Salem
Date: 2004
Architect: SMBW Architects PLLC
County: Salem
Monticello
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1770
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Albemarle
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts addition/renovation
City: Richmond
Date: 2010
Architect: Rick Mather + SMBW Architects PLLC
County: City of Richmond
Burruss Hall, Virginia Tech
City: Blacksburg
Date: 1936
Architect: William Carneal and J. Ambler Johnston, Carneal, Johnston, and Wright, Architects and Engineers
County: Montgomery
Point of Honor
City: Lynchburg
Date: 1815
Architect: George Cabell Sr.
County: Lynchburg
Miles B Carpenter Folk Art Museum
City: Waverly
Date: 1890
Architect: unknown
County: Sussex
Old City Hall
City: Richmond
Date: 1886-94
Architect: Elijah E. Myers
County: City of Richmond
Stonewall Jackson House
City: Lexington
Date: 1801
Architect: Cornelius Dorman
County: Rockbridge