- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1935-36, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) repaved a segment of Chesapeake Street NW, from Nebraska Avenue to Fort Drive.
The work was part of the $949,496 WPA allotment for DC roadwork for fiscal year 1936.
The work is likely still extant, but invisible and paved over.
Source notes
Report of the Government of the District of Columbia, For the Year Ended June 30, 1936, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936, pp. 72-74.
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on January 8, 2020.
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