- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
In 1936, Work: A Journal of Progress reported the completion of a project by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to extend 44th Street NW, from Dexter Street to W Street. Today, 44th Street extends 1/4 mile south of Dexter, after which it becomes an unpaved walking path joining W Street in Grover Archbold Park.
Source notes
District of Columbia Works Progress Administration, “Many Miles of New Highways,” Work: A Journal of Progress, Vol. 1, No. 1, Sept. 1936, p. 3
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on April 15, 2015.
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