109 East Palace Street – this very building – played a role in the top secret stuff that was going on up the hill in Los Alamos.

Here’s what Atlas Obscura has to say about it:

WHEN YOU NEED TO BE dropped off at a top-secret research facility that does not exist, what address do you give the driver? For two decades, that address was 109 East Palace in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Located a few blocks from Santa Fe’s city center, the unremarkable building served as the first stop for Richard Feynman, Enrico Fermi, Robert Oppenheimer, and innumerable other scientists working on the top-secret Manhattan Project in nearby Los Alamos. Dozens of scientists, technicians, and other workers would arrive each day to be ferried up to “the Hill” where work on the atomic bomb (and possibly other secret science projects) actually took place.

Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 6.29.2024