diff --git a/cpp/doc/HDFS.md b/cpp/apidoc/HDFS.md
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rename from cpp/doc/HDFS.md
rename to cpp/apidoc/HDFS.md
diff --git a/cpp/doc/Windows.md b/cpp/apidoc/Windows.md
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rename from cpp/doc/Windows.md
rename to cpp/apidoc/Windows.md
index 64f6a1b98f6..b9a6143a744 100644
--- a/cpp/doc/Windows.md
+++ b/cpp/apidoc/Windows.md
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ other development instructions for Windows here.
 Microsoft provides the free Visual Studio 2017 Community edition. When doing
 development, you must launch the developer command prompt using
 
-```"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat" -arch=amd64```
+```
+"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat" -arch=amd64
+```
 
 It's easiest to configure a console emulator like [cmder][3] to automatically
 launch this when starting a new development console.
@@ -80,4 +82,4 @@ cmake --build . --config Release
 
 [1]: https://conda.io/miniconda.html
 [2]: https://conda-forge.github.io/
-[3]: http://cmder.net/
\ No newline at end of file
+[3]: http://cmder.net/
diff --git a/cpp/apidoc/index.md b/cpp/apidoc/index.md
index fdac4969beb..fc10e0fddeb 100644
--- a/cpp/apidoc/index.md
+++ b/cpp/apidoc/index.md
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ the usage of the C++ API for Arrow and the leaf libraries that add additional
 functionality such as using [jemalloc](http://jemalloc.net/) as an allocator
 for Arrow structures.
 
+Table of Contents
+-----------------
+
+ * Instructions on how to build Arrow C++ on [Windows](Windows.md)
+ * How to access [HDFS](HDFS.md)
+
 Getting Started
 ---------------