Lower Basin Historic District

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]

Lower Basin Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Virginia Landmarks Register
Craddock Terry Hotel, December 2008
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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
Coordinates	37°24′52″N 79°8′21″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; 02000620 [1]
VLR No.	118-0211
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 24, 1987, boundary increase June 06, 2002
Designated VLR	October 14, 1986, June 13, 2001, April 30, 2008[2]

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.[1]