There has long been speculation that the name came from a local landowner, because the square was previously named Lincoln Square. The name was bestowed on the area in 1906 by the New York City Board of Aldermen, but records give no reason for choosing that name. President Abraham Lincoln or for its location in the Lincoln Square Neighborhood. It is unclear whether the center was named as a tribute to U.S. Koch Theater (formerly the New York State Theater), and the Metropolitan Opera House were opened in 1962, 1964, and 1966, respectively. The center's first three buildings, David Geffen Hall (formerly Avery Fisher Hall, originally named Philharmonic Hall), David H. Numerous architects were hired to build different parts of the center (see § Architects). He is credited with raising more than half of the $184.5 million in private funds needed to build the complex, including drawing from his own funds the Rockefeller Brothers Fund also contributed to the project. Rockefeller was appointed as the Lincoln Center's inaugural president in 1956, and once he resigned, became its chairman in 1961. Respected architects were contracted to design the major buildings on the site. Rockefeller III, built Lincoln Center as part of the "Lincoln Square Renewal Project" during Robert Moses's program of New York's urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s. A consortium of civic leaders and others, led by and under the initiative of philanthropist John D.
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