 The Dutch Garden was designed by Mary Horgan Mowbray-Clarke (1874–1962), a West Nyack native and wife of the sculptor John Mowbray-Clarke, in 1933–34 and constructed between 1934 and 1938 as a Works Progress Administration project.It was built as a memorial to the county's early settlers and was designed in the formal 17th century Dutch tradition.The Dutch Garden won "Garden of the Year" from "Better Home and Gardens" magazine in 1935.