- 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.
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