Frederick Button
{{Short description|British architect (1901–1969)}}
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Frederick C. Button ARIBA (1901 – 1969) was a British architect, the co-founder of Adie, Button and Partners.
Career
Born 1901, Button was mentored by Thomas Wallis of Wallis, Gilbert and Partners.{{cite book|author=Nigel R. Jones|title=Architecture of England, Scotland, and Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=epsFOeV1mCMC&pg=PA64|accessdate=5 August 2015|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31850-4|page=64}} 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".{{cite book|author=Joan S. Skinner|title=Form and Fancy: Factories and Factory Buildings by Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, 1916-1939|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yzZpi-FbEooC&pg=PA18|accessdate=5 August 2015|year=1997|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0-85323-612-2|pages=17–19}}
With George Adie he co-founded Adie, Button and Partners. Notable buildings designed by the firm include the Park Lane Hotel in Piccadilly,{{cite book|author1=Christopher Hibbert|author2=Ben Weinreb|title=The London Encyclopaedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wN_H-__MBpYC&pg=PA625|access-date=5 August 2015|year=2008|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-1-4050-4924-5|page=625}} the art deco apartment block at 59-63 Princes Gate, South Kensington (1937-8),[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol45/pp205-209 'Princes Gate and Princes Gardens'], British History Online the 1930s Charters House, in Sunningdale, Berkshire, which was used as a country retreat by Edward, Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson,{{Cite web |title=Charters, Sunningdale - 1323676 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1323676 |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}} and the Stockwell garage, which opened in April 1952.{{NHLE|num=1249757 |desc=Stockwell Bus Garage|accessdate=17 June 2014}} He died in 1969, aged 67 or 68.
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Category:Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects