Historic Markers Across Tennessee
The Guest House
| Marker ID: |
THC 1D 25 |
| Location: |
On E Madison Rd., Oak Ridge, TN |
| County: |
Anderson |
| Coordinates: |
N 36° 01.718 W 084° 14.518 |
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36.02863333 -84.24196666 |
| Style: |
Free Standing ** |
| Waymark: |
WM3KQC
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The Guest House
The Guest House provided accommodations for visitors to the Clinton Engineering Works (Oak Ridge) during the time of the Manhattan Project, which led to the development of the atomic bomb. The Guest House hosted such dignitaries as physicists J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi and Secretary of War Henry Stimson.
Tennessee Historical Commission
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