Houston Main Building

It originally housed offices of the Prudential Insurance Company, before becoming a part of the MD Anderson Cancer Center.

[8] The offices in the building served the states of Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas.

[6] MD Anderson paid $18.5 million for the Prudential Building, which is located on a 22.5-acre (9.1 ha) site.

[7] In 2002 MD Anderson announced that it planned to demolish the building and replace it with a four-story medical campus.

William Daigneau, the vice president of operations and facilities, said that renovating the buildings would be too costly.

David Bush of the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance said that the building would be eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

[6] Ann Hale, the director of the Hurd La Rinconada Gallery in San Patricio, unincorporated Lincoln County, New Mexico, estimated the value of the painting at over $3 million.

Hale said that the museum had been working with several private individuals and universities to try to get the mural moved, but she said that there were "no real solid prospects."

The vice president of MD Anderson, Bill Daigneau, said in 2008 the structural problems in the building are cracking the mural.

According to Daigneau, polled MD Anderson employees and faculty opposed installing the mural in a new area.

Allan Turner of the Houston Chronicle said that removing the mural, restoring it, and installing it in a new location would cost over $500,000.