Lake Street Widening – Burlington VT

City:
Burlington, VT

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

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

Description

Photo caption, UVM: “May 8, 1936. Lake Street, WPA Project No. 65-12-336 looking South from intersection of Depot Street. This project consists of widening pavement to twenty four feet with Telford stone base construction, surfacing with a leveling course of penetration macadam varying in thickness from one to four inches and constructing Hot Mix stone filled sheet asphalt wearing surface two inches in thickness.”

Source notes

Burlington Streets: Lake Street, Louis L. McAllister Photographs, Box A05, Folder 10, Item 02, https://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/item/mcalA05F10i02 (accessed May 17, 2017)

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 17, 2017.

Location Info


Lake St.
Burlington, VT

Coordinates: 44.480685, -73.221717

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