Tudor Place

This guide to Tudor Place in Washington, D.C. follows a white oak on the East Lawn that stood for about a hundred sixty years, from shading Union officers boarded here during the Civil War to shading Peter family tennis matches — with President Grover Cleveland reportedly among the spectators. You'll also hear about the family's wait for word of Armistead Peter the third, serving in the Pacific during World War Two. Listen for the tulip poplar still standing nearby, one of the last trees older than the mansion itself.