3. The Woolworth Building
The Kellex Corporation had its headquarters inside the Woolworth Building, a 1920s skyscraper in Lower Manhattan constructed by Five-and-Dime millionaire Frank Woolworth and dubbed “The Cathedral of Commerce.” The Kellex Corporation was a clandestine off-shoot of the M.W. Kellogg Company, a chemical engineering company based in Jersey City. The company was chosen to design the K-25 plant in Tennessee and to develop processes and equipment to produce enriched uranium through gaseous diffusion. The K-25 name for the Oak Ridge site took its “K” from “Kellog” and “25” from the type of uranium used in the project.
4. The Baker and Williams Warehouses
The Baker and Williams Warehouses on West 20th Street were used temporarily to store tons of uranium concentrates. The uranium came from the Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited Company in Canada and arrived in secret at the Hudson River’s docks. Remediation of the warehouses took place from 1991 to 1993.
