C Street NW Improvements – Washington DC

State:
WASHINGTON-DC

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding

Started:
1939

Completed:
1940

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Description

The Public Works Administration (PWA) improved a segment of C Street NW, from Second Street to John Marshall Place.

This section of road was part of a PWA-funded project to widen, realign, repave, and install sidewalks along streets, to accommodate the new Municipal Center building (also a PWA-funded project).

Source notes

Report of the Government of the District of Columbia, For the Year Ended June 30, 1939, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940, p. 83.

 

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on June 14, 2020.

Location Info


C Street NW and Second Street
Washington, DC

Coordinates: 38.8935328, -77.0135674

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