YOUNG, Edward Lee (1860- c. 1919) of New York City was credited with the original design of Langdon Hall, Blair Road, CAMBRIDGE, ONT. (inf. from William Bennett, Architect, Blair, Ont.). This country mansion, built for Eugene Langdon Wilks and designed in an elaborate Georgian style, was completed in 1902 under the supervision of Eden Smith of Toronto, who modified the plans first prepared in 1898. The mansion is now used as a country house hotel and spa. Edward L. Young was active in New York City for his entire career; he joined the Architectural League of New York in 1886, and took particular pride in his design for Langdon Hall near Galt, Ontario. He exhibited his perspective drawing for this mansion in 1899, where it was listed as " A Colonial House for E. Langdon Wilks, Blair, Ontario " (Catalogue of the Fourthteenth Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York, 1899, Item 739). Young opened his own office on Madison Avenue in New York City in 1895 and continued to live and work there until 1919 (Dennis S. Francis, Architects in Practice in New York City 1840-1900, 1979, p. 84; James Ward, Architects in Practice New York City 1900-1940, 1989, p. 87)
The name of Edward L Young can be linked to minor works in The Bronx and in Manhattan during the period of 1895 to 1910, however his largest and most important commission is not located there, but rather in Baltimore, Maryland where he designed the spectacular ballroom addition to the mansion of Alexander Brown, Cathedral Street at Madison Street, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 1901. The ballroom is modeled on the lavish ballroom built in 1751-88 at the Chateau Compiegne, one of three royal residences for the King of France (the other palaces are at Versailles and Fontainbleu). Young created a virtual replica of this room in Baltimore, measuring 60 feet by 32 feet, with a ceiling height of 25 feet. A detailed architectural description of his design was published in the Baltimore Sun, 10 November 1901, p. 14, and this structure still stands today and has been incorporated into the complex of the Baltimore School for the Arts. No information on E.L. Young has been found after 1920.