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.
Battle Abbey/ Virginia Historical Society
City: Richmond
Date: 1912-21
Architect: Bissell and Sinkler
County: City of Richmond
White House of the Confederacy
City: Richmond
Date: 1818
Architect: Robert Mills
County: City of Richmond
Green Spring *ruin
City: James City
Date: 1643
Architect: Sir William Berkeley
County: James City
Walter L. Rice Education Building at VCU Rice River Center
City: Charles City
Date: 2009
Architect: Train and Partners Architects
County: Charles City
Designated as the first LEED Platinum building in Virginia.
Chelsea Plantation
City: West Point
Date: 1709
Architect: Augustine Moore
County: King William
St. Bede Catholic Church
City: Williamsburg
Date: 2002
Architect: Tom Kerns, Kerns Group Architects, P.C.
County: James City
Image Credit: Prakash Patel
Old First Baptist Church
City: Richmond
Date: 1876
Architect: Thomas U. Walter
County: City of Richmond
Image Credit: Photo by Crazyale
Pentagon
City: Arlington
Date: 1941
Architect: G.E. Bergstrom and DJ Witmer
County: Arlington
The Nathalie P. and Alan M. Voorhees Archaearium
City: Historic Jamestowne Island
Date: 2006
Architect: Carlton Abbott, Carlton Abbott and Partners, P.C.
County: James City
Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind
City: Staunton
Date: 1846
Architect: Robert Cary Long, Jr., Baltimore
County: Staunton
St. Peter’s Church
City: New Kent
Date: 1703
Architect: Builder-Col. Joseph Foster
County: New Kent
Lynchburg Courthouse and Monument Terrace
City: Lynchburg
Date: 1855
Architect: Andrew Ellison, Jr.
County: Lynchburg