- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) improved a segment of Tenth Street NE, from Michigan Avenue to Taylor Street.
This was a WPA curb and gutter project: “The improvement of this roadway provided a main thoroughfare to the private developments and business in this vicinity.”
Source notes
Report of the Government of the District of Columbia, For the Year Ended June 30, 1939, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940, p. 82.
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on June 14, 2020.
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