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Dupont Circle Underpass Construction

Published June 6, 2013

Posted in Faces & Places of Yesterday
and tagged 1940s, Dupont Circle

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We did a post on the construction some time ago. Here’s another great photo of it from DDOT.

Dupont Circle underpass construction

Source: Flickr user ddotphotos

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