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.
Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1772
Architect: unknown
County: Fredericksburg
Image Credit: Washington Heritage Museums
Gunston Hall
City: Lorton
Date: 1755-59
Architect: William Buckland and William Bernard Sears
County: Fairfax
The Boars’ Head Inn
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1834*/1965
Architect: Johnson, Craven & Gibson Architects, Charlottesville, Virginia
County: Albemarle
*The grist mill that serves as the foundation of the Inn was built in 1834. It was later dismantled and brought to the current site to serve as the “bones” of the current structure which was completed in 1965.
Image Credit: Rutherford Studios and Kristen Rose Photography (Exterior)
Weston Manor
City: Hopewell
Date: 1789
Architect: William and Christian Eppes Gilliam
County: Hopewell
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Fairfield Plantation *ruin
City: White Marsh
Date: 1694
Architect: Lewis Burwell II
County: Gloucester
Aquia Church
City: Stafford
Date: 1751-57
Architect: Mourning Richards, Contractor and William Copein, Mastor Mason
County: Stafford
Bacon’s Castle
City: Surry
Date: 1655
Architect: Arthur Allen
County: Surry
Image Credit: Preservation Virginia
Wickham House/Valentine Richmond History Center
City: Richmond
Date: 1812
Architect: Alexander Parris
County: City of Richmond
Liberia Plantation
City: Manassas
Date: 1825
Architect: Harriett Bladen Mitchell Weir and William James Weir
County: Prince William