In 1977, Roger Brown purchased a property in New Buffalo , Michigan, a beach community east of Chicago. He commissioned his partner, George Veronda, to design a home and studio. It was completed in.1979. The Veronda Pavilion, a residence, and the Roger Brown studio and guest house. They are steel and glass modernist structures tucked into a secluded dunes landscape between the Galien River and the Beachfront Road.