Architect
Folsom worked prolifically in the 1860s. By 1864 he was planner in two constructions firms. Folsom himself drew the plans or was involved in the construction of many historic Utah buildings including the Old Salt Lake Theater, the Salt Lake Tabernacle, the Salt Lake City Council Hall, the Provo Tabernacle, the Provo Theater, the Moroni Tabernacle, and the original ZCMI building in downtown Salt Lake City. Folsom also had ecclesiastical duties in the LDS Church, serving first as a high councilor and then as first councilor to the Salt Lake Stake in 1874.
In 1867 Truman O. Angell, who had recovered from poor health, was again made church architect and Folsom was made his assistant. In 1877, while serving as an assistant to the church architect, Folsom was called by the LDS Church to design the Manti Utah Temple, and he lived in Manti, Utah until the temple's completion in 1888. Returning to Salt Lake, he was building inspector under Mayor John Clark until 1890. He served some of his last years as an LDS patriarch before his death on March 20, 1901.
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