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University of Pennsylvania. Pratt Institute.
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Lorenzo Young
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Young practiced for 40 years in Salt Lake City, Utah and is credited with having designed over 700 buildings. Young"s architectural training came at the Pratt Institute in New York and at the University of Pennsylvania under Paul Philippe Cret between 1922-1924. In 1929 he established an architectural firm with Edward O. Anderson that lasted through 1936.
Two of his early works are some of his most notable, namely the Kingsbury Hall in the University of Utah Circle and the Granite Stake Tabernacle, which are both listed on the United States. National Register of Historic Places.
Young later partnered with Arnold Ehlers. Young served as president of the Utah Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (American Institute of Architects) during the 1930s.
The Democratic Unionist Party had vigorously opposed the demolition of the Salt Lake Theater 20 years previously and Young thought that designing the museum after the old theater designed by William Harrison Folsom would be fitting. Many of his colleagues at the American Institute of Architects disagreed, preferring a contemporary design.
Young went forward with his plans but ultimately resigned his membership in the American Institute of Architects as a result of the disagreement.
On of Young"s latest projects that he was involved with in its early phase was the Marriott Center at Brigham Young University with Bob Fowler. Young had begun the process of becoming firm partners with Fowler when he unexpectedly died in March 1968 due to complications following back surgery.
