 In Spring 2007 SAIC's Historic Landscape Studio class (offered through SAIC's Historic Preservation graduate program), taught by Carol Yetken, undertook a project to research the landscape history of New Buffalo property, and create a preservation plan.The New Buffalo facility is used by SAIC faculty and staff year-round and is not open to the public.In the late 1980s Brown searched for a place to live on the west coast.