Saturday 29 March 2025
6 p.m.
BLACK TIE
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation Brock Environmental Center, Virginia Beach
Tickets $150/person Purchase>>
(event for AIA Virginia Fellows only)
ticket sales close March 10th at 5 p.m.
Tours & Other Opportunities SATURDAY MARCH 29th 2025
Noon Gather @ King Neptune Statue at 31st on the boardwalk
2:00 p.m. Tour – Atlantic Park
6:00 p.m. Cocktails & Dinner – Brock Environmental Center
SUNDAY MARCH 30th 2025
8:30 a.m. Optional Brunch at Beccas, the Cavalier, pay on your own
9:30 a.m. Tour – The Cavalier Hotel
The Grand Salon & DuPont Gallery of the Visitors Center
James Madison’s Montpelier
Presidential home
Memorial to the Enslaved Community
Museum of American history
Schedule
Available Tours / Activities
Saturday afternoon UVA Tour (details TBD)
5:00 pm Cocktail Hour
5:45 pm Group Photo
6:00 pm Introductions – Class of 2023 Fellows
6:20 pm Dinner
UVA Tour
Alice Raucher, FAIA has graciously arranged a brief tour on Virginia’s grounds of their new Student Health and Wellness building, located on their new Brandon Green Street. The tour will be Saturday afternoon and specific times and details will be confirmed via email in the next few weeks.
Montpelier Tour Public tours of the home are available on Saturday and Sunday. The last reservation on Saturday is 3:00 pm. You can make a reservation online using this link. The tickets are $36 per person and the RSVP for the tours becomes available for reservations two weeks prior to the date.
Directions to Montpelier Directions from your location are available at the link below, the GPS address is:
11350 Constitution Highway Montpelier Station, VA 22957
(Do not take Chicken Mountain Road – State Route 639). https://www.montpelier.org/
If you are staying in or near Charlottesville and would like to carpool or would prefer organized transportation to the Fête, please note this in your RSVP and pending response, carpools will be developed and organized transportation may be considered.
Hotel Accommodations and Transportation Those staying overnight can use the link below to hotels in the Charlottesville and Orange County area around Montpelier. In addition, Montpelier offers some housing on their property. They have five houses, called the Constitutional Village; they are rustic homes built by Marion DuPont Scott, mainly for employees when Montpelier was a large working horse farm. The homes are set up similarly to hotel rooms with some shared facilities. You can call Montpelier. They are a 10-minute walk on the grounds to the Visitors Center and $175/night. See link below.
Montpelier also referenced The Inn at Willow Grove, bed and breakfasts such as The Holladay House, Inn on Poplar Hill, Mayhurst Estate among others. You can call them to check availability and rates. Accommodations for the many offerings in Charlottesville and the surrounding area can be found online.
As recommendations to protect public health rapidly evolve, we believe it is prudent to postpone the Fellows Fete. AIA Virginia will be working with our vendors and venue to identify a new date for this event. We will be in touch with ticket holders as soon as details can be finalized. Refunds will be available for those who are not able to join us for the rescheduled event.
American Institute of Architects College of Fellows Region of The Virginias cordially invites you to the 2020 Fellows Fête.
Saturday, March 28, 2020 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Mobelux 1635 W. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23220
Attire is Black Tie.
Join us for cocktails, dinner, and a celebration of our new fellows!
R. Corey Clayborne, FAIA (AIA Richmond) Robert L. Easter, FAIA (AIA Richmond) H. Randolph Holmes Jr., FAIA (AIA Richmond) Gregory L. Rutledge, FAIA (AIA Hampton Roads) W. Kenneth Wiseman, FAIA (AIA Nothern Virginia)
Purchase Tickets>> Ticket sales are currently suspended.
Hotel: A block of rooms has been reserved at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Richmond. Make reservations online or call 1-804-672-8585 and ask for the American Institute Architects group rate. DISCOUNT ENDS MARCH 11th.
Parking: Carpooling from the hotel is recommended. There are limited parking spaces at Mobelux and street parking available on Broad Street in front of the building.
Hotel: There is a block of rooms reserved at Le Méridien Arlington for the evening of Saturday, March 23 at the rate of $159 per night (+taxes). Book your hotel at this discounted rate using this link. Deadline for room reservations is February 22, 2019.
Parking: Hotel parking $8 hourly, $30 daily
Optional: Walking Tour of Old Town Alexandria Saturday, March 23, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
The Old Town walking tour starts and ends at City Hall (301 King Street), south plaza entrance. Highlights of the tour will include private tours of the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum and the Carlyle House — one of the nation’s finest examples of Georgian architecture.
This event will take place on Saturday afternoon, rain or shine. Suggested parking is located at Market Square garage (110 N. Fairfax Street). There is no charge for the tour, but pre-registration is required.
Optional: 2019 Fellows Golf Outing at Mount Vernon Country Club
The event is planned for Sunday, March 24 at Mount Vernon Country Club. Please contact Baird Smith, FAIA at bairdmsmith98@gmail.com for more information.
Mount Vernon Country Club is a championship golf course which winds its way through the original forest of George Washington’s Mount Vernon plantation. It is an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary that protects the environment through habitat management, chemical use reduction, and water conservation. The course is also enhanced by the presence of Dogue Creek, a tidal tributary which lends a water hazard challenge on 14 of Mount Vernon’s 18 holes.
