Frederick Button Explained

Frederick Button
Significant Buildings:Stockwell Garage, Hoover Building
Spouse:Una Martin
Children:3
Birth Date:1901
Death Date:1969

Frederick C. Button ARIBA (1901–1969) was a British architect, the co-founder of Adie, Button and Partners.

Career

Button was mentored by Thomas Wallis of Wallis, Gilbert and Partners.[1] 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".[2]

With George Adie he co-founded Adie, Button and Partners. Notable buildings designed by the firm include the Park Lane Hotel in Piccadilly,[3] the art deco apartment block at 59-63 Princes Gate, South Kensington (1937-8),[4] the 1930s mansion Charters House in Sunningdale, Berkshire, which was used as a country retreat by Edward, Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson,[5] 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.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Nigel R. Jones. Architecture of England, Scotland, and Wales. 5 August 2015. 1 January 2005. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-31850-4. 64.
  2. Book: Joan S. Skinner. Form and Fancy: Factories and Factory Buildings by Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, 1916-1939. 5 August 2015. 1997. Liverpool University Press. 978-0-85323-612-2. 17–19.
  3. Book: Christopher Hibbert. Ben Weinreb. The London Encyclopaedia. 5 August 2015. 2008. Macmillan. 978-1-4050-4924-5. 625.
  4. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol45/pp205-209 'Princes Gate and Princes Gardens'
  5. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1323676 'Charters', Historic England