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.
Adam Thoroughgood House
City: Virginia Beach
Date: 1719
Architect: Argall Thorowgood
County: Virginia Beach
Rippon Lodge
City: Woodbridge
Date: 1747
Architect: Richard Blackburn
County: Prince William
Jamestown Fort
City: Jamestown
Date: 1607
Architect: Virginia Company
County: James City
Monticello
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1770
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Albemarle
Virginia Museum of the Civil War/ Hall of Valor
City: New Market
Date: 1969
Architect: William Ward Moseley, Moseley Architects
County: Shenandoah
Ash Lawn-Highland
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1799
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Albemarle
Hollins University, Front Quadrangle
City: Roanoke
Date: 1839
Architect: OW Brown and DC Yates
County: Roanoke
Barboursville
City: Barboursville
Date: 1822
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Orange
Ferguson Center for the Arts
City: Newport News
Date: 2005
Architect: Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company in association with Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects
County: Newport News
Image Credit: Robert Benson Photography
J. Sidna Allen Home
City: Fancy Gap
Date: 1911
Architect: Design by J. Sidna Allen and wife. Built by Preston Dickens
County: Carroll
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Ball Sellers House
City: Arlington
Date: 1750
Architect: John Ball
County: Arlington