Historic Court Yard

Wander all the way to the back wall behind The Rainbow Man sign, for a piece of what was once top-secret history. You will find a small plaque that reads, in part: “All the men and women who made the first atomic bomb passed through this portal to their secret mission at Los Alamos.” Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project, rented offices at 109 E. Palace Avenue in 1943 and hired the formidable Dorothy McKibbin to register every single scientist until the offices closed in 1963.