National Zoo: Harvard Street Entrance – Washington DC

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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