A check for fifty thousand dollars was given by Laboratory Director G. Peter Nanos, right, to Nancy Bartlit, center, with the Los Alamos Historical Society and Hedy Dunn, left, the Los Alamos Historical Museum, director. The Los Alamos Historical Society will use the check for repairs and restoration on the Oppenheimer house. The Department of Energy provided the monies as part of a Save America’s Treasure matching grant for the preservation of Los Alamos’ Manhattan era project buildings.
Los Alamos residents and others stood in line to take a tour of the Laboratory’s first director J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos family home Friday afternoon. The house was home to the Oppenheimer family from 1943 to 1945 while Oppenheimer was director of the Manhattan project. Originally part of the Los Alamos’ Boys Ranch complex, the home is located on "bathtub row," so named because they were only houses in Los Alamos during the Manhattan era project that had bathtubs. Photos by Ed Vigil, Public Affairs