Forty-ninth Street NW Improvements – Washington DC

State:
WASHINGTON-DC

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

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Started:
1937

Completed:
1938

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Description

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) improved a segment of Forty-ninth Street NW, from Ashby Place to Garfield Street.

The WPA graded this road, and also prepared it for paving with a foundation of salvaged material. “This is an important project because it is an outlet from Conduit Road to Ashby Place through a part of the northwest section to Massachusetts Avenue.”

Source notes

Report of the Government of the District of Columbia, For the Year Ended June 30, 1938, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938, p. 75.

 

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on June 7, 2020.

Location Info


Forty-ninth Street NW and Ashby Place
Washington, DC

Coordinates: 38.9202539, -77.09675969999999

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