Lorenzo Snow Young Papers (Ms 497)
The Lorenzo Snow Young Papers (1830s-l980s) consists of personal and
professional papers, photographs, and architectural drawings collected or
authored by Young (1894-1968), a prominent, Salt Lake City architect
credited with having designed 700 buildings. Although the collection
features only a few drawings, it still documents Young's work from the
1920s to the end of the 1960s through office files, information gathered
by others, newspaper articles, and correspondence. Information about his
personal life is found in family histories, his journal, an oral
interview, certificates, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
materials, correspondence, news articles, and financial documents. To a
lesser extent, the papers provide information about his wife, Aleine Young
(1898-1978) and their family. Young, the grandson of two presidents of
the LDS Church (Brigham Young and Lorenzo Snow), studied architecture at
the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the University of Pennsylvania. At
various times, he was employed as an architect by the LDS Church, but also
spent many years in private practice, including the partnerships of
Anderson and Young, Young and Ehlers, Lorenzo S. Young and Partners, and
Young and Fowler Associates. His work includes the DUP Museum in Salt
Lake City and Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah. Catherine Aleine
Margetts Young served on the General Board of the Relief Society of the
LDS Church from 1947 through 1971. An
indexed register is available.