Grant Road preserved the feel of nineteenth-century Tenleytown’s farming past as a winding road lined by huge linden trees and modest one-room-wide houses, with cows, mules, horses, and chickens in the surrounding fields. Most families there were working class, including storekeepers, stonemasons, and policemen, though two generations of Tenleytown physicians, John and Sidney Chappell, also lived there. General Sidney Chappell, head of psychiatry for the U.S. Army, lived in a large elegant house run by a white-coated butler. As one of the few roads through the farmlands, Grant Road also drew outsiders, and members of the Burrows family recalled regular visits by President Theodore Roosevelt from 1901 to 1909 because he had a nearby hunting lodge and enjoyed riding through the woods; he even took young Edna Burrows of number 4426 on horseback rides. Earlier, Grant Road formed the southern edge of Civil War-era Fort Reno and became part of the military road linking the city’s ring of forts, a route that may also have been walked by Walt Whitman on moonlit nights.