Robert Oppenheimer's Home

You are standing outside the childhood home of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project. In 1912, when he was just eight years old, his family moved into this building at one hundred fifty-five Riverside Drive. They occupied an eleventh-floor apartment that looked out over the Hudson River. His father, a successful textile importer, filled the home with fine European furniture and a prestigious art collection. Masterpieces by Picasso, Rembrandt, and Van Gogh hung on the walls of their living room, which was famously wallpapered in gold gilt.