BUTLER PRESERVATION L.C.
A unique Charleston, SC based company specializing in historic property research, preservation consulting, and small-scale restoration. We bring a multi-faceted background in preservation, research and documentation, and real-world trade experience to our projects, and we strive to help clients understand, maintain, and appreciate their historic buildings to the fullest.
Butler Preservation specializes in house histories, evolution reports , National Register nominations, Design Review Board and Board of Architectural Review guidance, writing articles, preservation planning, and tax credit consultation.

Report for a circa 1718 house in the walled city of Charleston.

Richard Marks Restoration was kind enough to let us use some of their renovation photos in the report.


This desirable area was extensively rehabilitated by Historic Charleston Foundation in the 1960s.



Cover page from a house history for an 18th century South of Broad house.

A rare photograph showing earthquake damage on lower Church Street.

Illustrations showing changing neighborhood context over the centuries.