- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs, Territories & Reservations, District of Columbia Commissioners (DC only)
- Started:
- 1941
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) aided in the construction of the 16th Street underpass beneath Scott Circle NW.
A 1941 Washington Post article reported that: “First steps to remove one of the District’s worst remaining bottlenecks were underway at Scott Circle yesterday. The fashionable residential section resounded to the snorts of straining steam shovels and reverberations of air compressors as District and WPA workmen laid the groundwork for construction of the much discussed $400,000 automobile underpass.”
The project was completed that same year.
Source notes
Howard F. Wentworth, “Second Underpass Started,” Washington Post, January 24, 1941.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Circle, accessed June 20, 2014.
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on July 28, 2014.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker.
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