This is based on information from the District Engineer's Office in Perth that the new Caledonian Railway Station would be located just to the south of it.

[1] Young was one of the early members of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science, which his son joined in May 1872.

After a short period as his assistant, he spent a year in London, where he studied architecture under Professor Thomas Roger Smith at University College London (where he was prizeman in construction in 1881) and drawing under Alphonse Legros at the Slade School.

He passed the qualifying exam in 1885 and was admitted Royal Institute of British Architects on 8 June, his proposers being John Honeyman (St Matthew's Church), Thomas Lennox Watson and John Burnet Sr.

[2] Their office was at 42 Tay Street,[3] part of Perth's Victoria Buildings, which they designed.