- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) improved Harvard St. around the entrance to the National Zoo in 1935-36.
Source notes
National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Work Projects Administration, Information Service, Primary File, 1936-42, Box 4, Folder 130-A.
District of Columbia Works Progress Administration, “Many Miles of New Highways,” Work: A Journal of Progress, Vol. 1, No. 1, Sept. 1936, p. 3
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on July 28, 2014.
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- National Zoo: Small Mammal House - Washington DC
- National Zoo: Mortellito Murals (Lost) - Washington DC
- National Zoo: New Exhibit Areas - Washington DC
- National Zoo: Mane Cafe - Washington DC
- National Zoo: Machine and Carpentry Shops Building - Washington DC
- National Zoo: Additions and Improvements - Washington DC
- National Zoo: Bird House Addition - Washington DC
- National Zoo: Knight Bas-Reliefs - Washington DC
- National Zoo: Mortellito Bas Reliefs - Washington DC
- National Zoo: Springweiler Sculpture - Washington DC
- National Zoo: Warneke Sculpture - Washington DC
- National Zoo: Fulda/Mortellito Bas-Reliefs - Washington DC
- National Zoo: Springweiler Bas-Reliefs - Washington DC
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