Court House Hill-Downtown Historic District (Boundary Increase II)

This addition to Lynchburg's downtown historic district takes in 44 resources along Madison and Harrison Streets between 5th and 7th Streets. Thirty-eight are dwellings and six are outbuildings such as garages and sheds. Most date from the late nineteenth century and mark the change from large-lot houses to denser urban housing on small lots set close to the street. Queen Anne frame houses predominate, with porches, sawn brackets, bargeboards and patterned slate roofs. The area also holds a Second Empire house with a slate mansard roof, American Foursquare dwellings, and a brick triple house and double houses. Three buildings predate 1860: a brick house of 1790-1815, an 1810 house with a rubble first floor, and an 1850 central-passage house. The Glass Double House of 1908 is attributed to architect Aubrey Chesterman and was built for Carter Glass. Brick and stone sidewalks and stone retaining walls add to the character. The area was listed for its architecture.