Roger Brown Home and Studio
- Architect
- Frederick Siebold
- Year
- 1988
- Style
- Italianate
- City
- Chicago, IL
Built as a store in 1888, this building at 1926 N. Halsted Street in Lincoln Park became the home and studio of Roger Brown, a leading figure in the Chicago Imagists movement. Brown and his partner George Veronda bought it in 1974 and converted it into living and studio space, and Brown redesigned the house and its back garden in his own artistic style. He lived and worked there until his death in 1997.
the building
Artist-remade studio. Brown and Veronda converted the 1888 storefront into a combined home and studio in 1974, and Brown reshaped the building and its back garden to reflect his own artistic vision, a design that in turn showed up in his paintings.
the style
The building's Italianate details date to its 1888 construction as a store, later folded into Brown's personal studio conversion.
More on Italianatesignificance
The building is a Chicago Landmark (L-409) and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 22, 2011. Brown's work hung in the Art Institute of Chicago and on the front of 120 N. LaSalle, and appeared on two Time covers and in the New York Times.
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