Frederick C. Button

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(1901–1969) was a British architect, the co-founder of

Adie, Button and Partners Adie, Button and Partners was a British firm of architects, best known for designing the Grade II* listed Stockwell Garage, a large bus depot in Stockwell, London, which opened in 1952 and is still in use. It was founded by George Adie and Fred ...

Career

Button was mentored by Thomas Wallis of

Wallis, Gilbert and Partners Wallis, Gilbert and Partners was a British architectural partnership responsible for the design of many Art Deco buildings in the UK in the 1920s and 1930s. It was established by Thomas Wallis (1873–1953) in 1916. Wallis had previously served ...

. By 1934, Button was an ARIBA and one of five partners in the firm, and "in charge of the execution of all plans and drawings". With

George Adie George Mountford Adie (14 January 1901 – 29 July 1989) was a British architect, the co-founder (with Frederick Button) of Adie, Button and Partners in Mayfair, London. George Mountford Adie was born in the UK on 14 January 1901. He started as a ...

he co-founded

. Notable buildings designed by the firm include the

Park Lane Hotel The Sheraton Grand London Park Lane is a 5 Star hotel on Piccadilly, London. The hotel opened in 1927 as The Park Lane Hotel to designs by architects Adie, Button and Partners, in a grand Art Deco style, and was constructed by the developer ...

in Piccadilly, the art deco apartment block at 59-63 Princes Gate,

South Kensington South Kensington, nicknamed Little Paris, is a district just west of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton. Its name was supplanted with ...

(1937-8), the 1930s mansion

Charters House Charters House is a Grade II listed building overlooking Sunningdale, Berkshire, built in 1938. The architects were George Adie and H. G. Hammond of Adie, Button and Partners. Charters was built for the industrialist Frank Parkinson on the site ...

Sunningdale Sunningdale is a large village with a retail area and a civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. It takes up the extreme south-east corner of Berkshire, England. It has a railway station on the (London) Waterloo to Reading ...

, Berkshire, which was used as a country retreat by Edward, Duke of Windsor and

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, and Stockwell bus garage, which opened in April, 1952.

Family

He married Una Button. They had 3 children; two sons and a daughter. Frederick had a brother and a sister.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Button, Frederick Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects 20th-century British architects 1901 births 1969 deaths