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.
Briery Church
City: Keysville
Date: 1855
Architect: Rev. Robert Lewis Dabney
County: Prince Edward
USA Today Building and Gannett Building
City: Arlington
Date: 2001
Architect: Kohn Pendersen Fox Associates
County: Fairfax
United States Marine Corps War Memorial
City: Arlington
Date: 1954
Architect: Edward F. Neild, Felix de Weldon (Sculptor)
County: Arlington
Freemason Street Baptist
City: Norfolk
Date: 1850
Architect: Thomas U. Walter
County: Norfolk
Fairfield Plantation *ruin
City: White Marsh
Date: 1694
Architect: Lewis Burwell II
County: Gloucester
Branch House/Virginia Center for Architecture
City: Richmond
Date: 1916-19
Architect: John Russell Pope
County: City of Richmond
Magnolia Grange Plantation
City: Chesterfield
Date: 1823
Architect: William Winfree
County: Chesterfield
Currie House
City: Blacksburg
Date: 1961
Architect: Leonard Currie
County: Montgomery
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Point of Honor
City: Lynchburg
Date: 1815
Architect: George Cabell Sr.
County: Lynchburg
John Paul Jones Arena
City: Charlottesville
Date: 2003
Architect: VMDO Architects
County: Albemarle
Brentsville Courthouse
City: Bristow
Date: 1822
Architect: William Claytor
County: Prince William
Bremo Historic District (Upper Bremo, Lower Bremo, Bremo Recess)
City: Bremo Bluff
Date: around 1808-45
Architect: General Hartwell Cocke
County: Fluvanna