The Garden was founded in 1926 and designed by noted landscape architect Beatrix Farrand.
Beatrix of the Netherlands | Beatrix Potter | Beatrix | Beatrix Miller | Beatrix Farrand | Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix | Queen Beatrix International Airport | Phil Farrand | Farrand Stewart Stranahan | Beatrix Ruf | Beatrix Havergal | Beatrix Hamburg | Béatrix de Cusance | 83 Beatrix |
The Garden Club of America Collection, which was donated in 1992, includes documentation of landscape architects such as Marian Coffin, Lawrence Halprin, Beatrix Farrand, Hare & Hare, Gertrude Jekyll, Umberto Innocenti, Jens Jensen, Charles Platt, Ellen Biddle Shipman, and Fletcher Steele.
A few of the many talented and influential landscape architects that have been based in The United States are: Frederick Law Olmsted, Beatrix Farrand, Jens Jensen, Ian McHarg, Thomas Church, and Lawrence Halprin.