- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Thomas Circle is a traffic circle at the junction of Massachusetts Avenue, Vermont Avenue, 14th Street, and M Street, NW. The through lanes of Massachusetts Ave. pass under Thomas Circle. That underpass was constructed in 1938-40, apparently with federal support from the Public Works Administration (PWA).
Source notes
National Archives, Record Group 69, Records of the Work Projects Administration, “Newspaper clippings file, 1935-1942.”
“Capital’s Biggest Building Program Promises A Boon By Spring: Expenditures May Reach $200,000,000,” Washington Post, November 27, 1938.
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on June 17, 2013.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker.
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