Lower Basin Historic District | |
Location | 700-1300 blocks of Jefferson St., 600--1300 blocks of Commerce St., and 1200--1300 Blks. of Main St., 1307 Main St., 103-109 Sixth St. Lynchburg, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 37°24′52″N 79°8′21″W / 37.41444°N 79.13917°W |
Area | 52 acres (21 ha) |
Architect | Davis, B.H.; Johnson, Stanhope; Et al. |
Architectural style | Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Italianate, Romanesque |
NRHP reference No. | 87000601 (original) 02000620 [1] (increase 1) 100009146 (increase 2) |
VLR No. | 118-0211 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | April 24, 1987 |
Boundary increases | June 06, 2002 July 18, 2023 |
Designated VLR | October 14, 1986, June 13, 2001, April 30, 2008[2] |
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.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, with boundary increases in 2002 and 2023, and two additional resources added in 2008.[1]
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