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.
Hollins University, Front Quadrangle
City: Roanoke
Date: 1839
Architect: OW Brown and DC Yates
County: Roanoke
Aquia Church
City: Stafford
Date: 1751-57
Architect: Mourning Richards, Contractor and William Copein, Mastor Mason
County: Stafford
Wessynton
City: Alexandria
Date: 1973
Architect: Nicholas Pappas, Diegert and Yerkes, AIA
County: Fairfax
Briery Church
City: Keysville
Date: 1855
Architect: Rev. Robert Lewis Dabney
County: Prince Edward
Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind
City: Staunton
Date: 1846
Architect: Robert Cary Long, Jr., Baltimore
County: Staunton
Endview Plantation
City: Newport News
Date: 1769
Architect: William Harwood
County: Newport News
White House of the Confederacy
City: Richmond
Date: 1818
Architect: Robert Mills
County: City of Richmond
Christ Church
City: Irvington
Date: 1735
Architect: “Robert “”King”” Carter”
County: Lancaster
National Bank of Fredericksburg/ Farmers Bank
City: Fredericksburg
Date: 1820
Architect: Robert and George Ellis
County: Fredericksburg
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
MacArthur Memorial
City: Norfolk
Date: 1847- 1850- originally as Norfolk County Courthouse, converted to MacArthur Memorial 1964
Architect: William R. Singleton (Courthouse): Wm. & Geofrey Platt (Memorial), Walter Hancock, Sculptor
County: Norfolk
St. Andrews Catholic Church
City: Roanoke
Date: 1902
Architect: William P. Ginther, Akron, OH
County: Roanoke
Image Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources