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.
National D-Day Memorial
City: Bedford
Date: 2001
Architect: Byron Dickerson, Dickerson Architects and Associates
County: Bedford
Rosewell *ruin
City: Gloucester
Date: 1725-1744
Architect: Mann Page
County: Gloucester
Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary
City: Alexandria
Date: 1775-92
Architect: unknown
County: City of Alexandria
Salem Museum/Williams-Brown House
City: Salem
Date: 1837/ 2010
Architect: William C. Williams/ Jennifer Smith Lewis
County: Salem
Carter’s Grove
City: James City
Date: 1750
Architect: David Minitree
County: James City
Virginia State Capitol
City: Richmond
Date: 1785-92
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: City of Richmond
MacArthur Memorial
City: Norfolk
Date: 1847- 1850- originally as Norfolk County Courthouse, converted to MacArthur Memorial 1964
Architect: William R. Singleton (Courthouse): Wm. & Geofrey Platt (Memorial), Walter Hancock, Sculptor
County: Norfolk
Governor’s Mansion
City: Richmond
Date: 1811-13
Architect: Alexander Parris
County: City of Richmond
Brentsville Courthouse
City: Bristow
Date: 1822
Architect: William Claytor
County: Prince William
Chapel of the Centurion (Memorial Chapel)
City: Hampton
Date: 1856
Architect: Richard Upjohn
County: Hampton