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.
Adam Thoroughgood House
City: Virginia Beach
Date: 1719
Architect: Argall Thorowgood
County: Virginia Beach
St. John’s Episcopal Church
City: Richmond
Date: 1740-41
Architect: unknown
County: City of Richmond
Mary Washington House
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1770
Architect: unknown
County: Fredericksburg
Image Credit: Washington Heritage Museums
United States Marine Corps War Memorial
City: Arlington
Date: 1954
Architect: Edward F. Neild, Felix de Weldon (Sculptor)
County: Arlington
Luck Stone Headquarters
City: Sabot
Date: 2008
Architect: SMBW Architects PLLC
County: Goochland
Chrysler Museum of Art
City: Norfolk
Date: 1933, 1965, 1974, and 1989
Architect: Peebles and Ferguson (1933), William and Geoffrey Platt (1965), Williams and Tazewell (1974), Hartman – Cox (1989)
County: Norfolk
Lee Hall Mansion
City: Newport News
Date: 1848-59
Architect: Richard Decatur Lee
County: Newport News
Elsing Green
City: King William
Date: 1690
Architect: William Burnett
County: King William
Barboursville
City: Barboursville
Date: 1822
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Orange
Handley Library
City: Winchester
Date: 1908-13
Architect: J. Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman, New York
County: Winchester
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources