| Lower Basin Historic District | |
| Nrhp Type: | hd |
| Nocat: | yes |
| Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
| Designated Other1 Date: | October 14, 1986, June 13, 2001, April 30, 2008[1] |
| Designated Other1 Number: | 118-0211 |
| Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
| 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: | 37.4144°N -79.1392°W |
| Architect: | Davis, B.H.; Johnson, Stanhope; Et al. |
| Architecture: | Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Italianate, Romanesque |
| Added: | April 24, 1987 |
| Increase: | June 06, 2002 |
| Increase2: | July 18, 2023 |
| Refnum: | 87000601 |
| Increase Refnum: | 02000620 |
| Increase2 Refnum: | 100009146 |
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 brickcommercial 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.[2]
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.