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Lower Basin Historic District

Coordinates: 37°24′52″N 79°8′21″W / 37.41444°N 79.13917°W / 37.41444; -79.13917
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Lower Basin Historic District
Craddock Terry Hotel, December 2008
Lower Basin Historic District is located in Virginia
Lower Basin Historic District
Lower Basin Historic District is located in the United States
Lower Basin Historic District
Location700-1300 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
Coordinates37°24′52″N 79°8′21″W / 37.41444°N 79.13917°W / 37.41444; -79.13917
Area52 acres (21 ha)
ArchitectDavis, B.H.; Johnson, Stanhope; Et al.
Architectural styleLate 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 NRHPApril 24, 1987
Boundary increasesJune 06, 2002
July 18, 2023
Designated VLROctober 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]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
  3. ^ Division of Historic Landmarks Staff (1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Lower Basin Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo and Accompanying map, 2002 Boundary Increase, 2008 Amendment

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