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.
Fort Chiswell Mansion
City: Fort Chiswell
Date: 1839-40
Architect: Stephen and Joseph Cloyd McGavock
County: Wythe
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Salem Museum/Williams-Brown House
City: Salem
Date: 1837/ 2010
Architect: William C. Williams/ Jennifer Smith Lewis
County: Salem
Montpelier
City: Orange
Date: 1780-83
Architect: Frances Taylor and Ambrose Madison
County: Orange
Exchange Building/ Siege Museum
City: Petersburg
Date: 1839-41
Architect: Mr. Berrien
County: Petersburg
United States Air Force Memorial
City: Arlington
Date: 2006
Architect: James Ingo Freed (Pei Cobb Freed and Partners)
County: Arlington
Shenandoah County Courthouse
City: Woodstock
Date: 1772
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Shenandoah
Bedford Hall Addition and Renovation, Longwood University
City: Farmville
Date: 2013
Architect: HGA Architects and Moseley Architects
County: Prince Edward
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts addition/renovation
City: Richmond
Date: 2010
Architect: Rick Mather + SMBW Architects PLLC
County: City of Richmond
Briery Church
City: Keysville
Date: 1855
Architect: Rev. Robert Lewis Dabney
County: Prince Edward
Coffee Pot Building
City: Lexington
Date: 1959
Architect: Kenneth Willis
County: Rockbridge
Image Credit: Roadside America
Central National Bank – Branch
City: Richmond
Date: 1929-30
Architect: John Eberson
County: City of Richmond
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Long Branch Plantation
City: Millwood
Date: 1810-11
Architect: Benjamin Henry Latrobe
County: Clarke