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.

[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] Media related to Lower Basin Historic District at Wikimedia Commons

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