- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Bureau of Public Roads (BPR), Public Works Funding, Federal Works Agency (FWA)
- Started:
- 1941
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
A 1941 article in the Washington Post reported the imminent start of paving on Utah Avenue NW between Nebraska Avenue and Pinehurst Circle at the Maryland border, to be conducted by the Bureau of Public Roads, a division of the Federal Works Administration (FWA).
Source notes
“$1,158,000 D.C. roads program set,” Washington Post, March 23, 1941, p. B1
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on April 14, 2015.
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Russ Chamberlayne
I lived on Utah Avenue from 1953-64. I was 2 years old when we arrived, and 14 when
we moved out of the house at 6315 Utah Ave. (between Tennyson and Barnaby). During
that period, the road paving consisted of reinforced concrete.
A worn segment of the paving on the hill between Barnaby and Pinehurst Circle revealed
the rebar used in the construction. I wonder at the quality of the paving, if such wear
had developed in the two decades or so since the work had been done.
I don’t know if the 1940s Public Roads Administration paving contract on Utah Ave.
included the sidewalk, but it was in even worse shape, when we moved in, than the
worn patch on the roadway mentioned above. It was an asphalt surface that was very
worn, and so rough with hummocks and depressions that I fell when my tricycle tipped
over (that would be circa 1954 or ’55, I guess) and I received an injury. I understood
later from my parents that this helped convince the city to put in a concrete sidewalk.