{"nrhp_refnum":"11000029","name":"Brown, Roger, Home and Studio","other_names":["Roger Brown Study Collection"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1926 N Halsted St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.917582312000036,"lon":-87.62940279799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-02-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Italianate brick storefront building at 1926 North Halsted Street in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago, built in 1888 and designed by Frederick Siebold, with a garage and landscaped backyard. Artist Roger Brown used it as his home and studio.","why_significant":"The property is tied to Roger Brown, an important twentieth-century artist who lived and worked there from 1974 until just before his death in 1997. He and his partner, architect George Veronda, renovated the interior, and it remains largely as Brown left it. It also reflects Lincoln Park's commercial development and its later appeal to artists.","narrative":"Located on Halsted Street in Chicago's Lincoln Park area, this two-story Italianate building was constructed in 1888 to a design by Frederick Siebold. It has red brick walls, limestone details and its original cast-iron storefront. Past ground-floor tenants included a tobacco shop, bookbindery, grocer and ice cream shop. Artist Roger Brown bought the building in 1974 and lived and worked there until just before his death in 1997. With his partner, architect George Veronda, he converted the first-floor retail space into a studio and workshop and created an apartment upstairs, much of the work done by the two men themselves. Brown also built the garage and designed the formal backyard garden. Many of his important artworks were made in the studio. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago now owns the property and maintains it as a house museum and study collection, with interiors and belongings kept as Brown left them. The building also reflects the neighborhood's commercial growth and its later popularity with artists.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Frederick Siebold (architect of the 1888 building); George Veronda (renovation design); Roger Brown (garage and backyard)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian / Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Maintained as a house museum and study collection owned by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with interiors preserved as Brown left them.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.254793-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/8925/28892523/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/11000029.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000029/b74e92c883-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000029/b74e92c883-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Alanscottwalker","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roger_Brown_Home_and_Studio.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Alanscottwalker</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:Roger_Brown_Home_and_Studio.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"94001029","name":"Lincoln Park","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/lincoln-park-94001029/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892523","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Brown_Home_and_Studio","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136831165"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/brown-roger-home-and-studio-11000029/"}