O’Shaughnessy Boulevard – San Francisco CA

City:
San Francisco, CA

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Description

The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed San Francisco’s O’Shaughnessy Boulevard.

Consisted of work necessary to complete the grading and underground drainage for a 60 foot boulevard around the west side of Glen Park Reservoir site and Glen Park, involving the removal of 87,716 cubic yards red rock, surfacing 16,000 square feet, raising 5 brick manholes, excavating 20,550 cubic yards earth and rock and replacing same in embankment for extension. When completed it will be a connecting link between the point where Twin Peaks Boulevard and Portola Drive meet and San Jose, Bernal Avenue and Route 101.–Healy, pp. 43-44.

Source notes

Healy, Clyde E. San Francisco Improved: Report of Clyde E. Healy, Assistant City Engineer - City of San Francisco and Coordinator of W.P.A. Projects, Period October 10, 1935 to August 31, 1939. San Francisco : [s.n.]., 1939. United States. Work Projects Administration (Calif.) Report on Progress of the Works Program in San Francisco. January, 1938. Works Progress Administration / William Mooser, Jr., branch manager. [San Francisco? 1938]

Location Info


O'Shaughnessy Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94131
San Francisco County

Coordinates: 37.741220, -122.44590

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