- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Parks and Recreation, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Works Agency (FWA)
- Started:
- 1942
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
In 1942, the Washington Post reported the allocation of $20,448 to the Federal Works Agency (FWA) for new construction and/or improvements to the Rudolph Playground in the city’s northwest quadrant.
Today, park abuts the Washington Latin Public Charter School and is apparently part of the school’s recreation area. There is a baseball field and traces of an older field, as well as a soccer pitch. The ball fields very likely trace back to the New Deal work of the early 1940s.
Source notes
“Lanham Act projects are approved,” Washington Post, October 15, 1942, p. B1
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on March 11, 2015.
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