- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) improved a segment of Linnean Avenue NW, Ellicott Street to Broad Branch Road.
The WPA graded this road, and also prepared it for paving with a foundation of salvaged material: “The old material is obtained from old roadways which have deteriorated due to the strain of heavy later-day traffic and were replaced by new standard type pavements.” Also, “This was an entirely new development and it formed a link between Broad Branch Road and the paved portion of Linnean Avenue at Ellicott Street thus opening up a short cut from the section north of Broad Branch Road to the downtown area. The project was 1,300 feet long.”
Source notes
Report of the Government of the District of Columbia, For the Year Ended June 30, 1939, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940, p. 81.
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on June 10, 2020.
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