- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Playgrounds, Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)
- Started:
- 1933
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Civil Works Administration completed improvements at the Gallinger Playground in Washington DC, between 1933 and 1934.
The work consisted of the following improvements: “New shelter(s) built.”
Source notes
Report of the Government of the District of Columbia, For the Year Ended June 30, 1934, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935, p. 86.
“Parties Planned At Playgrounds,” Evening Star, August 3, 1937, p. B-2 (accessed September 1, 2020).
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on September 1, 2020.
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