Street Paving – Wilmette IL

City:
Wilmette, IL

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

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Marked:
Yes

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) relayed the red vitrified brick street pavement at an unknown date on Crescent Place and Woodbine Avenue in Wilmette, Illinois. An embedded marker reads “Relayed by WPA.”

Source notes

Dr. Robin Williams, Historic Pavement, (https://www.historicpavement.com/new-page-92), accessed July 24, 2018.

Site originally submitted by Ernest Everett Blevins on July 24, 2018.

Location Info


Crescent Place and Woodbine Ave.
Wilmette, IL 60091
United States County

Coordinates: 42.071639, -87.699155

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