Don Carlos Young
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Joseph Don Carlos Young (6 May 1885 – 19 October 1938) was the final Church Architect of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1887 until 1893. In 1893, the office of Church Architect was dissolved and he continued to serve as an architect.[1]
Don Carlos Young was the son of Brigham Young and Emily Dow Partridge Young (a daughter of Edward Partridge). He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Young studied at the Deseret University and then the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York. At Rensselaer he studied civil engineering and architecture.[1]
After graduating in 1879, Young returned to Salt Lake City and began to practice architecture and building supervision. He married Alice Naomi Dowden on 22 September 1881. They had ten children.
In 1887 on the death of Truman O. Angell, Young was appointed Church Architect by Wilford Woodruff. With the completion of the Salt Lake Temple in 1893, it was felt the church no longer needed an architect, and for the next several years Young worked as a private architect.
In 1921 the church building department, with Young's brother Willard as supervisor, hired Young as the architect. Thus, even though he was no longer sustained in General Conference as church architect, he essentially again held this position.[1]
Young died in Salt Lake City.