NRHP Reference # 87000601; 02000620 Address Lynchburg, VA 24504, USA | VLR # 118-0211 Area 21 ha | |
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Location 700-1300 blks. of Jefferson St., 600--1300 blks. of Commerce St., and 1200--1300 Blks. of Main St., 1307 Main St., 103-109 Sixth St. Lynchburg, Virginia Architect Davis, B.H.; Johnson, Stanhope; Et al. Architectural style Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Italianate, Romanesque Added to NRHP April 24, 1987, boundary increase June 06, 2002 Similar Diamond Hill Historic District, Federal Hill Historic District, Garland Hill Historic District, Historic Hotels of America, Allied Arts | ||
The Lower Basin Historic District is a national historic district located in Lynchburg, Virginia. The district defines a commercial and industrial warehouse area located between the downtown commercial area to the south and the James River waterfront to the north. The district contains a variety of mostly late 19th- and early 20th-century, multi-story, brick warehouses and factories, two-to-three-story brick commercial buildings, and a number of structures associated with the James River and Kanawha Canal and the Norfolk and Western and Chesapeake and Ohio Railways. The district is named for a wide basin of the canal that once extended between Ninth Street and Horseford Road, and contains 60 contributing buildings, two contributing structures (a viaduct and a stone bridge), and one contributing object-a monument commemorating the site of 18th-century Lynch's Ferry.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, with the boundary increased in 2002, and two additional resources added in 2008.