{"nrhp_refnum":"90002104","name":"Rockland County Courthouse and Dutch Gardens","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of S. Main St. and New Hempstead Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New City","county":"Rockland County","state":"NY","lat":41.14643131550005,"lon":-73.99039716733434,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-01-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in New City, Rockland County, New York, made up of the 1928 Art Deco Rockland County Courthouse and the adjoining three-acre Dutch Gardens, a formal park built in the 1930s. The nominated area covers about 7.75 acres at South Main Street and New Hempstead Road.","why_significant":"The courthouse is an intact, competition-selected example of Art Deco civic architecture, rare in the area, with ornament recalling county heritage. Dutch Gardens is a formal designed landscape in the seventeenth-century Dutch tradition, with distinctive hand-carved brickwork. It was built as a Works Progress Administration project and is described as the only one designed and supervised by a woman, Mary Mowbray Clarke.","narrative":"Rockland County Courthouse and Dutch Gardens form a civic complex in New City, New York. The three-story courthouse, finished in 1928, is faced in Indiana limestone and follows the Art Deco style, with a flat roof, a symmetrical plan, and carved seals, wrought-iron flowers and bronze doors. Inside, a marble stair rises beneath a 1929 painted map of the county. The design by Dennison and Hirons won a competition and replaced an earlier brick courthouse that the growing county had outgrown. Beside it, Dutch Gardens was built between 1934 and 1936 and was designed by Mary Mowbray Clarke. Formal flower beds, serpentine brick walls, a tea house, bandstand, arbor and gazebo evoke the county's Dutch settlement heritage, with brick carved by hand. Funded through the Works Progress Administration during the Depression, it is described as the only such project designed by a woman. Together the two properties are valued for their architecture and local history.","period_of_significance":"1928; 1934-1936","architect_builder":"Dennison and Hirons (courthouse); Mary Mobray Clarke (Dutch Gardens)","architectural_style":"Modern Movement/Art Deco","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Courthouse and gardens remain in their historic uses as a courthouse and a garden; both are described as retaining a high degree of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.774714-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/90002104.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002104/579d52e988-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002104/579d52e988-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"KForce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RocklandCountyCourthouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">KForce</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RocklandCountyCourthouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321486","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockland_County_Courthouse_and_Dutch_Gardens","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7355442"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rockland-county/rockland-county-courthouse-and-dutch-gardens-90002104/"}