![]() ![]() ![]() Architect Philip Hubert intended the elegantly designed Chelsea Association Building to reflect the utopian ideals of Charles Fourier, offering every amenity conducive to cooperative living: public spaces and gardens, a dining room, artists’ studios, and 80 apartments suitable for an economically diverse population of single workers, young couples, small families and wealthy residents who otherwise might choose to live in a private brownstone. But the Chelsea Hotel, from its very inception, was different. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof In Wartime America, 2005). ![]() Turn-of-the century New York did not lack either hotels or apartment buildings, writes Tippins ( February House: The Story of W. A revealing biography of the fabled Manhattan hotel, in which generations of artists and writers found a haven. ![]()
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