SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2010 Enlightened I
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County and Prince George’s County.Who is Tuckerman, and what did Tuckerman do to get somany streets named af- ter him/her? — AngelaWiens, Berwyn Heights
In AnswerMan’s experience,
to get a street named after you, it helps to be rich and/or fa- mous. Of course, being the for- mer often helps with the latter. We’ll get to the other Tucker-
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Asyia Everett, left, and ArianaMartinez of Severn check out a Lightcycle from the upcoming movie “Tron: Legacy,” at the Science and Engineering Expo on theMall, which continues Sunday.
Washington region does its best to put off the start of winter BY MARTINWEIL
Bright sunshine made for a
pleasant afternoon in the Wash- ington region Saturday, but not even hours of shirt-sleeve warmth could banish recent signs of the approach of winter. At Dulles International Air-
port, the morning temperature fell to one degree above freezing Saturday. The 33-degree reading
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An animal control officer re- sponded to a report of a large bird stuck in a soccer net at a school. The officer cut the turkey vul-
ture from the net, determined that it was not injured and re- leased it to the wild.
Among cases handled by the Loudoun County Department of Animal Care and Control.
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was the lowest sinceApril, aswas Reagan National Airport’s 42-de- greemorning low. The National Weather Service
on Friday posted a frost advisory for northern and western sub- urbs. A comment posted Satur- day on The Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang site re- ported “the lightest and briefest of early morning frosts” in Cent- reville. In a sign of the times, the
mans in a little while (there’s also a Tuckerman Street in Ar- lington County), but first let’s explore the derivation ofMont- gomery’s Tuckerman Lane, which winds fromRockville Pike west across Old George- town Road, under I-270 and past Seven Locks Road. It takes its name fromWalter Rupert Tuckerman. Walter Tuckerman was not
District’s Department of Public Works advised last week that residential street sweeping will end for the season on Friday. On Saturday afternoon,winter
seemed remote, with tempera- tures in the 70s. But the area had just passed seasonal milestones. The amount of daylight dipped below 11 hours on Thursday; Saturday, the height of the sun dropped to less than 40 degrees.
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originally fromWashington. He was born in 1881 in Oyster Bay, N.Y., butmoved to the District to live with his wealthy grandfa- ther, Lucius Tuckerman, when he was orphaned. The younger Tuckerman at-
tended Harvard, got his law de- gree fromGeorgeWashington University, went outWest and — after a stint prospecting, ranch- ing and sheepherding — re- turned toWashington and be- came a developer and banker. He founded the Bank of Bethes- da, was president of Union Sav- ings Bank and helped organize the Bethesda Volunteer Fire De- partment and Bethesda Public Library, contributing land for both. He wasmaster of the hounds of the Rock Creek Hunt and a foundingmember of Burning Tree Country Club. (Tuckerman was a crack golfer all his life, amassing some 200 trophies. Among hismost- prized: the Siamese Cup,made by the Crown Jeweler and, ac- cording to a brief biography of Tuckerman, “a rare specimen of Siamese silversmithy.”) In 1912 he built a house in the
wilds ofMontgomery County and called it Tuxeden. (From“Tuckerman’s Eden,” per- haps?) At the time, it was suffi- ciently rural that he could ride his horse to hisWashington of- fice. He and his wife, the former Edith Abercrombie-Miller,
raised five daughters there. He developed the land around him; today it’s the Edgemoor neigh- borhood. And it’s nowhere near Tucker-
man Lane. In 1925,Walter and Edith
bought a large tract of land — some 318.5 acres — in what was known as Black Oak Thicket. The Tuckermans never built a home there, but the road which led fromOld Georgetown Road to this land became known as Tuckerman Lane. A large por- tion of the acreage became Cab- in John Regional Park. But what of the other Tucker-
man thoroughfares? Answer Man doubts they were named afterWalter. It’smore likely they are named after his grandfather. Lucius was a rich ironmagnate who, upon his death in 1890, left an estate valued at $4million (about $100million in today’s money). He built a 22,000- square-foot house at the south- west corner of 16th and I streets NWthat eventually became the offices of theMotion Picture As- sociation of America. The lobby- ing group tore it down in 1967 to build amodern headquarters. (Architecture buffs lined up to carry offmantels, newels, cor- nices and the like. Some of the paneling fromthe house is in
EZ SU Answer Man keeps up with the Tuckermans
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JOHN KELLY'S WASHINGTON
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A1967 photo of the TuckermanHouse at 16th and I streetsNW. The mansion was demolished later that year.
the Hawk ’n’ Dove bar on Capi- tol Hill.) In 1901, the District revamped
its street names, extending the naming systemfromthe city of Washington into the county of Washington. East-west streets were lettered, then came one- syllable words in alphabetical order, two-syllable words, three- syllable words and plants. City leaders tried whenever possible to use names of “distinguished Americans.” AnswerMan’s guess is that Lucius Tuck-er-man (three syllables!) qualified. (Walter hadn’tmoved back to Washington yet, remember.) What had been Peabody Street in the Brightwood section of Northwest became Tuckerman Street. That doesn’t explain how the
streets in Arlington and River- dale got their names, but An- swerMan suspects it was likely a connection to the same family, whose heritage includes signer of the Declaration of Indepen- dence OliverWolcott. If you have information that suggests otherwise, please send it along. And whichever Tuckerman you’re on, drive carefully.
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