Chris Brown's Sketch House

The mausoleum of Stephen Whitney (1776-1860) in Green-Wood Cemetery. Today is his birthday. I didn’t know his birthday was coming up when I ...

A 1937 Dodge D5 coupe, parked on a street in Brooklyn Heights.

A house in Bethelem, CT. I did it as an item for an auction for my kids' school. The winning bidder grew up in this house, which is now ...

Chicago bridges. The La Salle Street Bridge, The Clark Street Bridge, and the Kinzie Street Railroad Bridge, aka the Chicago and North Weste...

  Lincoln Park, Chicago. The Ulysses S. Grant Monument in the distance. It was commissioned after the president’s death in 1885. Louis Rebis...

Assumption Catholic Church in the River North neighborhood of Chicago. This parish was founded in 1881 as the first church in Chicago specif...

  Dearborn Station was the first of six intercity train stations servicing downtown Chicago. It was designed by Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz, who is ...

The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Illinois. The text that wraps around the upper floors is from Obama's 2015 speech commemoratin...

  Ornament above the entrance to 740 Broadway, corner of Broadway and Astor Place.

  Cozy Soup 'n' Burger was opened by Greek immigrant brothers in 1972. It's been on Broadway steps away from the NYU campus for ...

  This Queen Anne-style house is on Prospect Place in Park Slope. Built in 1887, it was designed by C.P.H. Gilbert. Gilbert was known for de...

 The Crown Building, at Fifth Avenue and 57th St. It was built between 1920-22 by developer and philanthropist August Heckscher. The archite...

  This 11-story Beaux Arts building on the corner of 39th St. and Fifth Ave. was built in 1905-06 by Horace A. Hutchins, a businessman from ...

  In the 1880s, the north side of West 54th St. was dominated by the large campus of St. Luke's Hospital. The rest of the area consisted...

  On West 57th St., between 5th and 6th Avcnues, stands this lone Beaux Arts-style mansion. Large vacant lots flank it, awaiting constructio...

  A row house in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. It was built in 1860, along with its two neighbors. Designed by Nicholas Rhodes, they followed the I...

I sketched this distinctive storefront some years ago. The business relocated many years ago, but its sign remained. I just heard that the b...

The Coignet Stone Company Building in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Built in 1872-73, this is the last remaining structure of the Coignet Stone Company...

I donated a house portrait commission for my kids' school fundraiser, and this was the highest bidder! I think they liked it.

More drawings from when I was in Syracuse last month. The city has lots of cool architecture, from when Syracuse's heyday when the Erie ...