Thirty-first Street NW 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 Thirty-first Street NW from Utah Avenue to Worthington Street.

This was a WPA curb and gutter project: “This roadway, together with the roadway of Barnaby Street… constitute main thoroughfares to the recent development of the subdivision known as Barnaby Woods.”

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


Thirty-first Street NW and Utah Avenue
Washington, DC

Coordinates: 38.9707377, -77.0626722

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