Place
Dupont Underground
19 Dupont Cir NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA
Cut-and-cover streetcar tunnels turned Cold War shelter, now a raw concrete gallery beneath a traffic circle.
This guide to Dupont Underground in Washington, D.C. tracks eighty years of failed plans for the streetcar tunnels beneath the traffic circle: a 4.8 million dollar cut-and-cover build abandoned after twelve years, a Cold War fallout shelter stocked through the 1960s, and a fraud-tainted 1990s food court that shut within two years. Look for the old streetcar tracks still visible beneath the artwork lining the tunnel walls.
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