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.
Wilton House
City: Richmond
Date: 1750-53
Architect: William Randolph III
County: City of Richmond
Montpelier
City: Orange
Date: 1780-83
Architect: Frances Taylor and Ambrose Madison
County: Orange
Bremo Historic District (Upper Bremo, Lower Bremo, Bremo Recess)
City: Bremo Bluff
Date: around 1808-45
Architect: General Hartwell Cocke
County: Fluvanna
Salem Museum/Williams-Brown House
City: Salem
Date: 1837/ 2010
Architect: William C. Williams/ Jennifer Smith Lewis
County: Salem
Hollin Hills
City: Alexandria
Date: 1946, 1956-71
Architect: Charles W. Goodman
County: Fairfax
Photo by Clarissa Peterson
Liberia Plantation
City: Manassas
Date: 1825
Architect: Harriett Bladen Mitchell Weir and William James Weir
County: Prince William
Bruton Parish Church
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1710-15
Architect: Royal Governor Alexander Spottswood
County: James City
Berkeley Plantation
City: Charles City
Date: 1726
Architect: Benjamin Harrison
County: Charles City
National Museum of the Marine Corps
City: Triangle
Date: 2004-06
Architect: Fentress-Bradburn Architects
County: Prince William
Stiles Residence
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1969
Architect: Carlton Abbott
County: James City
Allied Arts Building
City: Lynchburg
Date: 1931
Architect: Stanhope S. Johnson and Addison Staples
County: Lynchburg
Virginia Beach Convention Center
City: Virginia Beach
Date: 2007
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
County: Virginia Beach