West Virginia Avenue NE Improvements – Washington DC

State:
WASHINGTON-DC

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

New Deal Agencies:
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)

Started:
1933

Completed:
1934

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

In 1933-34, the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) carried out pavement repair and other unspecified improvements to a long segment of West Virginia Avenue NE, from Mount Olivet Road to New York Avenue.
 
The road was paved with “temporary material consisting of broken-concrete base, broken stone, and slag. These large aggregates are choked with smaller material, and an application of asphaltic cement completes the operation. This construction forms a very good temporary roadway.”
 
The work is likely still extant, but paved over several times since then.

 

 

Source notes

Report of the Government of the District of Columbia, For the Year Ended June 30, 1934, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935, p. 40.

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on January 11, 2020.

Location Info


West Virginia Avenue NE
Washington, DC

Coordinates: 38.9134, -76.9822

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