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.
Freemason Street Baptist
City: Norfolk
Date: 1850
Architect: Thomas U. Walter
County: Norfolk
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
Sully Historic Site
City: Chantilly
Date: 1794
Architect: Richard Bland Lee
County: Fairfax
Ridgemont Hospital – Floyd County Historical Society Museum
City: Floyd
Date: 1913
Architect: Lather Hylton
County: Floyd
Sanders House
City: Bluefield
Date: 1894-96
Architect: unknown
County: Tazewell
Magnolia Grange Plantation
City: Chesterfield
Date: 1823
Architect: William Winfree
County: Chesterfield
Aquia Church
City: Stafford
Date: 1751-57
Architect: Mourning Richards, Contractor and William Copein, Mastor Mason
County: Stafford
Governor’s Palace
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1706-20
Architect: Henry Cary
County: James City
Poplar Forest
City: Forest
Date: 1806-09
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
County: Bedford
Virginia Military Institute Barracks
City: Lexington
Date: 1839
Architect: Alexander Jackson Davis
County: Rockbridge