  the alexander hamilton u.s. custom house is a building in new york city built 1902â07 by the federal government to house the duty collection operations for the port of new york. it is located near the southern tip of manhattan, roughly on the same spot as fort amsterdam, the original center of the settlement of new amsterdam. its address is 1 bowling green. the building is now the home of the george gustav heye center of the national museum of the american indian, as well as the united states bankruptcy court for the southern district of new york, and since 2012, it is also the home to the national archives at new york city. ==architecture== the building was designed by minnesotan cass gilbert, who later designed the woolworth building, which is visible from the building's front steps. the selection of gilbert to design the building was marked with controversy. until 1893 federal office buildings were designed by government architects under the office of the supervising architect of the united states department of the treasury. in 1893 the tarsney act permitted the supervising architect to hire private architects following a competition. the supervising architect james knox taylor picked gilbert who earlier had been his partner at the gilbert & taylor architect firm in st. paul, minnesota. the scandal never quite blew over and in 1913 the tarsney act was repealed.architects to the nation: the rise and decline of the supervising architect's office by antoinette j. lee - oxford university press, usa (april 20, 2000) isbn 0-19-512822-2 thumb|upright=1.2|left|100 years of grandeur: alexander hamilton u.s. custom house, new york, new yorkvideo, 17 min. 30 secs., u.s. general services administration, 2007 constructed between 1902 and 1907, the building is considered to be a masterpiece of the [[beaux-arts archi
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