For much of his prolific career, famed Chicago Imagist Roger Brown lived and worked in a converted 1880s storefront at 1926 North Halsted. About a year before the artist’s death in 1997 at age 55, he gave the two-story house to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which opened it for weekly classes, scholarly research and public visits by appointment soon thereafter.

The house closed in 2020 because of the COVID-19 shutdown. It never reopened.

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