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.
ABOUT US
Butler Preservation L.C. is a Charleston, S.C. based company specializing in historic preservation consulting, historic property and general historical research, genealogy and biographical research, and small restoration/renovation projects. We strive to help our clients understand, appreciate, and care for their historic buildings. We enjoy assisting our clients with historic research of all kinds, from city houses, to rural farmsteads, family history, and local cultural resources. We work with contractors and architects to provide building evolution reports, precedent research, and to help them navigate design review board, tax credit, and permitting processes. We also love to dive into the significance of historic properties of all types by providing historical marker text and National Register nominations.
Butler Preservation is unique in that the owner and lead consultant, Christina Butler, has a professional background in historic preservation, as well as construction and carpentry- melding two integrally related disciplines and incorporating material knowledge and repair protocols into historical research. One of our specialties is building pathology and evolution, including alterations over time and dating features of historic buildings.
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Owner/consultant Christina Butler has a professional background in historic preservation and history, as well as over 20 years of experience in new construction, restoration, and renovation work. She holds a B.A. in Historic Preservation and Community Planning, an M.A. in American History, and a certificate in Construction Technology.
Christina is the Provost, Chair of General Education, and a full professor at the American College of the Building Arts, where she teaches courses in historic preservation and architectural history. She is also an adjunct professor for Clemson's Master of Historic Preservation program. She taught for over a decade at College of Charleston, including courses in Building Pathology, Preservation Project Planning, Researching Historic Properties, Vernacular Architecture, and Introduction to Historic Preservation. Butler lectures at other venues on various aspects of architectural and local history. Her areas of interest include urban history, cultural landscapes, history of public works and technology, and historic building materials and methodology. She researches and writes cultural resource management reports, land use histories, National Register nominations, and assists clients with preservation permitting and understanding and caring for their historic properties. Christina has presented at the Charleston Symposium, Tulane University, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Salve Regina University, and other preservation and history oriented conferences and events.
Her first academic press book, Lowcountry At High Tide: A History of Flooding, Reclamation, and Drainage in Charleston premiered in June 2020, published with University of South Carolina Press. She has also wrote Italians in the Lowcountry ffor the Dante Alighieri Society, which highlighted Italian cultural and architectural contributions to Charleston, and worked with Historic Charleston Foundation and Historic Ansonborough Neighborhood Association to write Ansonborough: Birth and Rebirth. Butler She wrote Footlight Players: A Century of Charleston Theatre for the theatrical organization, and regularly writes for Kiawah Legends and real estate company blogs. Her latest book, Charleston Horse Power: Equine Culture in the Palmetto City, was published by University of South Carolina Press in August 2023.
Butler meets the Secretary of Interior qualification standards for the roles of Historian, Historic Preservationist, and Architectural Historian.
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