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.
Assateague Lighthouse
City: Assateague Island
Date: 1867
Architect: unknown
County: Accomack
Aquia Church
City: Stafford
Date: 1751-57
Architect: Mourning Richards, Contractor and William Copein, Mastor Mason
County: Stafford
Weston Manor
City: Hopewell
Date: 1789
Architect: William and Christian Eppes Gilliam
County: Hopewell
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Mary Washington House
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1770
Architect: unknown
County: Fredericksburg
Image Credit: Washington Heritage Museums
Christ Church
City: Alexandria
Date: 1767-73
Architect: Col. James Wren
County: City of Alexandria
Smithfield Plantation
City: Blacksburg
Date: 1774
Architect: Col. William Preston
County: Montgomery
Tuckahoe Plantation
City: Richmond
Date: 1730-40
Architect: Randolph Family
County: Richmond
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Powder Magazine
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1715
Architect: Royal Governor Alexander Spottswood
County: James City
Ash Lawn-Highland
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1799
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Albemarle
City/ Farmer’s Market
City: Petersburg
Date: 1787
Architect: Maj. B.J. Black
County: Petersburg
Fairfield Plantation *ruin
City: White Marsh
Date: 1694
Architect: Lewis Burwell II
County: Gloucester
Berkeley Plantation
City: Charles City
Date: 1726
Architect: Benjamin Harrison
County: Charles City