Tulip Grove Home for Rent

When real estate developer Levitt and Sons bought the land around the 18th-century Bel Air Mansion, it replaced opulence with simplicity. The Georgian-style mansion was the home of Maryland’s colonial governor during the 1700s, but in the 1960s, the estate’s rolling grounds were turned into a site for modest homes and yards that were bought up by young families. The neighborhood directly in front of the mansion was named Tulip Grove, and it has endured as an attractive, moderately priced commuter community in the Washington suburbs. Tulip Grove is one of many Bowie neighborhoods with alphabetized street names. Every road name starts with the letter T, which is why some Bowie locals refer to the area as the T-section, says Simone Malloy, an associate broker with HomeSmart who is based in Bowie. Virtually the entire neighborhood was developed during the 1960s. “Over in that section, you’ll have the original homes that are mostly ranches,” Malloy says. Those homes are mixed in with Colonial Revivals along curving streets. Lots were uniformly sized at a fifth of an acre, besides some larger corner lots. Trees planted when the neighborhood was developed 60 years ago have matured, and