Sixteenth Street NE Paving – Washington DC

State:
WASHINGTON-DC

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

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Started:
1933

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Unknown

Description

In 1933, the Washington Post announced the approval of several road surfacing projects funded by the Public Works Administration (PWA): “Among projects approved here are paving of Sixteenth street, Constitution Avenue, Michigan Avenue, Columbia Road, Foxhall Road, Good Hope Road, New Hampshire Avenue, Benning Road and Conduit Road, widening of E Street back of the White House and widening of Thirteenth Street.”

The report continues: “The Sixteenth street project was the first actually begun under the public works grants in the Tenth Highway District” (Post, 1933). It doesn’t say exactly which part of Sixteenth Street was involved, but it was probably the stretch north of the White House to Rhode Island.

In any case, the work would probably be invisible today, given subsequent pavings.

Source notes

“District leads states in road work speed,” Washington Post, October 9, 1933, p. 13

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on March 18, 2015.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker.

Location Info


16th St. NE
Washington, DC 20006

Coordinates: 38.9032, -77.0365

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