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.
St. Peter’s Church
City: New Kent
Date: 1703
Architect: Builder-Col. Joseph Foster
County: New Kent
Wilderness Road Regional Museum
City: Dublin
Date: 1810-16
Architect: Adam Hance
County: Pulaski
Magnolia Grange Plantation
City: Chesterfield
Date: 1823
Architect: William Winfree
County: Chesterfield
Paramount Theater
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1931
Architect: Rapp & Rapp
County: Albemarle
Montpelier
City: Orange
Date: 1780-83
Architect: Frances Taylor and Ambrose Madison
County: Orange
Ball Sellers House
City: Arlington
Date: 1750
Architect: John Ball
County: Arlington
Liberia Plantation
City: Manassas
Date: 1825
Architect: Harriett Bladen Mitchell Weir and William James Weir
County: Prince William
Long Branch Plantation
City: Millwood
Date: 1810-11
Architect: Benjamin Henry Latrobe
County: Clarke
Reston Town Center
City: Reston
Date: 1990
Architect: Sasaki and RTKL
County: Fairfax
Blue Ridge Farmhouse Addition
City: Washington
Date: 2000
Architect: Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, Architect
County: Rappahannock
Image Credit: Paul Warchol
Rising Sun Tavern
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1760
Architect: Charles Washington
County: Fredericksburg