The interior features a large three-story lobby that extends across the front of the building to the two flanking pavilions.

It was built as a memorial to the county's early settlers and was designed in the formal 17th century Dutch tradition.

Master craftsman Biaglo Gugliuzzo of Garnerville created walks and latticed walls of Haverstraw brick.

The garden features a one-story tea house whose interior features a brick fireplace with carvings of mountains, windmills and other serene symbols representing aspects of Dutch-American history, others of motifs popular in 1930s: Popeye, the Baker Cocoa and Old Dutch Cleanser maids.

[2] It has been said that folk singer Burl Ives once performed there and that Eleanor Roosevelt visited the garden.