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Designed by Hubert & Pirrson, the Chelsea opened in 1884 as one of the City’s earliest cooperative apartment houses and became a hotel about 1905. Its florid cast iron balconies were made by the firm of J.B. and J.M. Cornell. Artists and writers who lived there included Arthur B. Davies, James T. Ferrell, Robert Flaherty, O. Henry, John Sloan, Dylan Thomas, and Thomas Wolfe.
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