Maryland Avenue 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 Maryland Avenue NE. from Bladensburg Road to Nineteenth Street.

The WPA graded this road, and also prepared it for paving with a foundation of salvaged material. “This work was done in connection with the paving of a portion of the roadway with cement concrete under the supervision of the Construction Division [of the District of Columbia].”

 

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


Maryland Avenue NE. and Bladensburg Road
Washington, DC

Coordinates: 38.9000824, -76.9834855

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