- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
A September 17, 1936 article in the Washington Post reported that Public Works Administration (PWA) funds had been allocated for roadway improvements in the city’s southeastern quadrant:
“The program calls for the widening and repaving of Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets between C and E streets and the north and south sections of E Street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets. Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets will be widened to 56 feet, or about 20 feet broader than at present.”
This project was part of a massive New Deal program of street paving and upgrades around the city of Washington DC. Most such work is invisible today beneath subsequent repavings.
Source notes
“PWA makes grant for repairing jobs,” Washington Post, September 17, 1936, p. X15
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on March 4, 2015.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker.
Contribute to this Site
We welcome contributions of additional information on any New Deal site.
Submit More Information or Photographs for this New Deal Site
Join the Conversation