Montrose Park Playground – Washington DC

State:
WASHINGTON-DC

Site Type:
Playgrounds, Parks and Recreation

New Deal Agencies:
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Work Relief Programs

Started:
1934

Completed:
1935

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Site Survival:
Unknown

Description

The Federal Emergency Relief Administration funded improvements at the Montrose Park Playground in Washington DC between, 1934-1935. The work consisted of “[r]egraded basketball and volley ball courts.”

 

Source notes

Report of the Government of the District of Columbia, For the Year Ended June 30, 1936, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936, p. 161.

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on August 1, 2020.

Location Info


Montrose Park
Washington, DC

Location notes: General location marker.

Coordinates: 38.9134, -77.0609

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