- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
In 1936, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) completed a paving project on P Street, a short stretch of road in the city’s southwest quadrant.
This was part of a nearly $1 million WPA program of street paving in the District that fiscal year.
Source notes
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 April 15, 2015.
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