- City:
- San Francisco, CA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
Cost $940,271 from point near 25th Avenue to 14th Avenue and Fulton. Work consisted of excavation and fill, construction of sub-base and surfacing; building red rock paths and planting center strip, reinforced concrete retaining wall and concrete curb, installing irrigation and drainage and lighting systems, planting and seeding. It provides a cross-over thru [sic] Golden Gate Park connecting 19th Avenue on Southerly side of Golden Gate Park with 25th Avenue and Fulton Boulevard on Northerly side–Healy, p. 49.
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]Contribute to this Site
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