Winooski Avenue Paving – Burlington VT

City:
Burlington, VT

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

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding

Description

Photo caption, UVM: “August 15, 1939. So. Winooski Ave. looking south from intersection of Main Street after Plant-Mix asphalt pavement with an average of one and one-half inches of hot asphalt binder course or leveling course and two inch wearing surface of American Bitumuls laykold mixture had been placed and the street opened to traffic. Sign to the left near a two story billboard structure states P.W.A. Federal Works Agency Public Works Administration Street Improvements. Billboards advertise Ritz Crackers and Chesterfield Cigarettes. Strong building on the corner to the right.”

Source notes

Burlington Streets: Winooski Ave., Louis L. McAllister Photographs, Box A07, Folder 09, Item 24, https://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/item/mcalA07F09i24 (accessed May 17, 2017)

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 17, 2017.

Location Info


S Winooski Ave.
Burlington, VT

Coordinates: 44.473772, -73.210718

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