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560: 299: 439:. After re-designing the towers and finials, and the final appearance of the windows, Young focused his energies on designing the temple's lavish late Victorian/Neo-baroque interior. Besides the construction of interior supports, none of the interior designs drawn by Angell (or Wm. Ward, Wm. H. Folsom, and Angell's son, T.O. Angell Jr.) had been executed. Thus as Angell is considered the primary architect of the temple's exterior, Young is considered the primary architect for its interior. He also designed the temple's original Annex, the 517: 531: 617: 42: 546: 631: 329:(LDS Church) from 1887 until 1893. In 1893, the office of Church Architect was dissolved (to be reinstated for a time in the mid 20th century), Young thereafter practiced privately with the LDS Church as a frequent client. Young practiced as an architect, landscape architect and designer from 1879 to circa 1935. A preponderance of his work centered on church commissions, or commissions offered him by extended Young family members, or higher echelon church friends. 602: 493:(as Young & Hansen, architects) the LDS Church's flagship meetinghouse in Washington, D.C., known as the "Washington Chapel," located on 2810 Sixteenth Street, N.W., sheathed no less in railroad shipped Utah granite. Finally, J. D. C. Young's youngest son, George Cannon Young, was also a successful mid-20th century Utah architect. With his son, Richard Young, G. C. Young designed the LDS Church's twenty-eight story 588: 574: 416:(designed in 1884, completed 1892; Provo, Utah Territory) and the Templeton (Zion's Bank) Building (designed in 1883, completed 1890; Salt Lake City). The Bear Lake Tabernacle and the Brigham Young Academy buildings are extant examples of Young's early design work, and are considered two of the LDS Church's most beloved last 19th century architectural landmarks. 265: 288: 484:
Young acted as mentor to dozens of younger architects and engineers, including many of his own children. This familial list includes Don Carlos (Don) Young Jr., who assisted his father in a failed circa 1911-1917 bid to design the Utah State Capital building. Young & Son took second place behind
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After graduating in 1879, Young returned to Salt Lake City and practiced as a railroad engineer; gradually his first love of architecture, landscape architecture and design took precedence over engineering. Young is considered Utah's first academically trained architect and landscape architect. He
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As his father had hoped, Young taught in Utah's schools, first as an instructor and later as a professor of "architecture and mechanical drawing" at the University of Deseret (Salt Lake City) from 1883 to 1888; and later as a teacher of mathematics at
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Between c. 1920 and 1935, he practiced as an institutional architect, designing (or supervising the designs) of hundreds of different yet mildly standard plan-like buildings for the LDS Church. Young worked for his step brother,
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married Alice Naomi Dowden on 22 September 1881. They had ten children. Young entered into a polygamist marriage on January 11, 1887 when he married Marion Penelope Hardy in Juarez, Mexico. Young and Hardy were married, or
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electrical system, heating plant and greenhouse/conservatory, and the general landscape design for Temple Square. With the completion of the Salt Lake Temple in 1893, Young was released as Church Architect.
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Abraham H. Cannon (1859-1896) Diaries, Date: January 11, 1887, Vault Mss. 62, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
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At mid-career Young practiced with his oldest son, Don Carlos Young, as Young & Son, Architects; and was responsible for the design of the 2nd
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The early life and career of Joseph Don Carlos Young (1855-1938): a study of Utah's first institutionally trained architect to 1884
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Architect for the Salt Lake Temple, Brigham Young Academy (Provo, Utah) and Bear Lake Tabernacle (Paris, Idaho)
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as church architect, Young was essentially described as such from 1887 to this death.
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Young died in 1938 in Salt Lake City as the oldest remaining son of Brigham Young.
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Young's early landscape design commissions include the
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Joseph Don Carlos Young
Photo of Don Carlos Young Sitting in chair
Wilford Woodruff
Truman O. Angell
Salt Lake City
Utah Territory
Salt Lake City
Utah
Salt Lake City Cemetery
40°46′37.92″N 111°51′28.8″W / 40.7772000°N 111.858000°W / 40.7772000; -111.858000 (Salt Lake City Cemetery)
Alma mater
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
University of Deseret
Brigham Young
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Biography portal
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American architect
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Salt Lake City
Utah Territory
Brigham Young
Edward Partridge
University of Deseret
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Erastus Snow
Brigham Young Academy

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