​On a changing block in Chelsea, a Broadway set designer’s 1904 studio still stands

"The luxury architecture of today’s far West Chelsea is surrounded by ghosts: of former horse stables, converted warehouses, and the steel trestle of the elevated railway that once carried trains and is now traversed by pedestrians. Some of these ghosts offer mysterious clues about their former residents. Case in point: the blond-brick building on the south side of West 29th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues. ‘John H. Young’ a terra cotta plaque above the door at Number 536 reads. ‘Studios 1904.’ Who was John H. Young? ...”

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