George B. Moore
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Moore George B. Moore
The Hispanic Society of America, home to one of the largest collections of Hispanic cultural material outside Spain, has decided to move downtown from Washington Heights to draw more visitors and acquire the space it needs to display its art and artifacts. The chairman, George B. Moore, said that its board has been looking at real estate and development proposals in Battery Park, Chelsea and Midtown, but has no fixed area in mind and that they would prefer to build rather than have to remake an existing building, given the specific needs for displaying our diverse collection. Mr. Moore also said that the society might need to raise as much as $300 million, citing the costs of buying land and constructing a building and a need to double the museum's endowment of about $65 million, which covers most of the society's annual $3 million operating budget.