Perot Supports MAI Efforts to Obtain Customs House

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Summary

The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, announced that H. Ross Perot is throwing his support behind the Museum's efforts to obtain the U.S. Customs House in New York City for its new home. In February 1985 Perot offered MAI $70 millon to move the museum to Dallas.

Subject

  • Perot, H. Ross 1930-
  • National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) George Gustav Heye Center
  • National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-074, Box 3, Folder: MAI VI.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1987

Topic

  • Architecture
  • Historians
  • Museums
  • United States Customs House (New York, N.Y.)
  • Buildings
  • Indians of North America--Museums

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