Eighteenth and Nineteenth Street Improvements – Washington DC

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.

Location Info


18th and 19th Street SE
Washington, DC 20003

Coordinates: 38.8840, -76.9790

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