The building sits on the site of Fort Amsterdam, constructed by the&amp;nbsp;Dutch West India Company&amp;nbsp;to defend their operations in the&amp;nbsp;Hudson Valley.&amp;nbsp;   the Museum

 Bounded by&amp;nbsp;Bowling Green&amp;nbsp;to the north,&amp;nbsp;Whitehall Street&amp;nbsp;to the east, Bridge Street to the south, and State Street to the east.   the Museum

Seven stories high with an interior steel frame   National Museum of the American Indian

The Fort Amsterdam became the nucleus of the&amp;nbsp;New Amsterdam&amp;nbsp;settlement, and in turn, of&amp;nbsp;New York City. Bowling Green, immediately to the north, became the oldest park in New York City.   the Museum

<p>The vertical line shows the path that would become known as Bowery Road, but was originally the same up island trail that was incorporated into Broadway. The path westward to the Hudson River became known as Sand Hill Road until it crossed Minetta Creek, and still exists past that point as Greenwich Avenue. Stokes thinks the 1644 cattle fence followed this path from Bowery to Minetta Creek. These paths connected Lenape villages, farms and hunting and fishing grounds. From Indian paths in the great metropolis by Reginald Pelham Bolton, published by the New York Museum of the American Indian and Heye Foundation.</p>

A museum in the United States devoted to the culture of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. It is part of the Smithsonian Institution group of museums and research centers. 