Tenth Street NE Improvements – Washington DC

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.

Location Info


Tenth Street NE and Michigan Avenue
Washington, DC

Coordinates: 38.935001, -76.992817

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