Introduction | Domestic | Civic | Commercial | Religious | Catalog | Credits | Comments

rchitecture is a measure of human aspirations and achievement. But if buildings are to be read in that fashion, those that are lost must be considered along with those that still stand; only then do we see the full landscape of a region. Literally hundreds of Virginia buildings of architectural or historical importance and interest are now lost. The consequence is that significant evidence of history in Virginia has vanished and, perhaps inevitably, this evidence has been at least partly forgotten. Lost Virginia seeks to recover, at least in a gallery setting, this lost architectural heritage by presenting a sampling of it, grouped according to the categories of domestic, civic, commercial, and religious buildings. While this evidence may appeal as nostalgia, its greater value is to revise incomplete views about architecture in Virginia and in turn about patterns of life in the region. Continue

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