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.
Center for the Arts, Virginia Tech
City: Blacksburg
Date: 2013
Architect: Snøhetta
County: Montgomery
Red Hill (Patrick Henry’s Law Office)
City: Brookneal
Date: Originally 1794- 1799 (Image: approx. mid 1930’s)
Architect: unknown
County: Charlotte
Riddick’s Folly House
City: Suffolk
Date: 1837
Architect: Mills Riddick
County: Suffolk
Sweet Briar House
City: Sweet Briar
Date: 1790
Architect: Crews (or Crouse) family
County: Amherst
Hampton Coliseum
City: Hampton
Date: 1968-70
Architect: A.G. Odell, Jr. and Associates
County: Hampton
Green Spring *ruin
City: James City
Date: 1643
Architect: Sir William Berkeley
County: James City
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus
City: Ashburn
Date: 2002-2006
Architect: Rafael Viñoly Architects
County: Loudon
Image Credits: Roger Foley and Matt Staley
Tuckahoe Plantation
City: Richmond
Date: 1730-40
Architect: Randolph Family
County: Richmond
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Mount Vernon
City: Alexandria
Date: 1757-78
Architect: George Washington
County: Fairfax
Piney Grove at Southall’s Plantation
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1790; enlarged 1850
Architect: unknown; John Stubblefield
County: James City
Photo courtesy of Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Old Coast Guard Station
City: Virginia Beach
Date: 1903
Architect: George R. Tolman
County: Virginia Beach