The Friends of Ganondagan (FOG) will construct a 15,654 SF year round Seneca Arts and Cultural Center at Ganondagan (SACCG) State Historic Site. Ganondagan has 619 acres of land in Victor, NY and has been open to the public since 1987.It was the location of the largest Seneca town in the 17th century. Referred to as the Town of Peace by the Seneca, Ganondagan is revered as the burial site of the Mother of Nations, one of three key founders of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. SACCG will be located on a section of the Historic Site referred to as Boughton Hill and within a short walk from the reconstructed full scale 17thC Seneca Bark Longhouse, a traditional Iroquois dwelling that housed multiple families.The vegetated roof will help reduce its environmental impact by insulating the building thus reducing heating and cooling loads and absorbing both rainwater and solar radiation respectively reducing runoff and the heat island effect. Embedding the structure into the hill also makes use of the natural insulating properties of the earth. The Center will allow Ganondagan to: educate and engage New York State residents and a national and international tourism population with year-round Native American programming at the Historic Site? the only site dedicated to telling the story of the 17th C town and capital for the Seneca? Ganondagan; provide a venue to showcase contemporary artists and objects from three collections of Seneca artifacts, some as old as 5,000 years.
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Historic Property Acquisition, Development and Planning