About Professor Butler
Christina Butler has a professional background in historic preservation and history as well as over twenty years experience in new construction, restoration, and renovation work. Aside from her role as provost, professor, and chair of general education at the American College of the Building Arts, Butler also teaches for Clemson University’s Masters of Science in Historic Preservation program and is the owner of Butler Preservation LC. She researches and writes preservation plans and evolution reports, house histories, land use histories, and National Register nominations.
Butler meets the Secretary of the Interior’s qualification standards for the roles of Historian, Historic Preservationist, and Architectural Historian. She is the Author of Lowcountry at High Tide” A History of Flooding, Reclamation, and Drainage in Charleston and Charleston Horse Power: Equine Culture in the Palmetto City (both with the University of South Carolina Press); Ansonborough: Birth and Rebirth for the Historic Charleston Foundation, and numerous articles for Kiawah Legends.
Butler completed a two-year construction technology trade program in 2002, and worked as a builders assistant for Millersburg Custom Homes in northeast Ohio. She completed an internship with H.A. Dollason restoration in Charleston, SC during her undergraduate years. Butler is a licensed specialty residential contractor in the state of South Carolina.
Christina Butler does things the right way
Christina Butler is a preservation badass. She writes about historic preservation. She teaches it. She renovates. And she lives in a modern home built to feel like something a skilled Charleston tradesman would have lived in 250 years ago.
Lowcountry at High Tide
The signs are there: our coastal cities are increasingly susceptible to flooding as the climate changes. Charleston, South Carolina, is no exception, and is one of the American cities most vulnerable to rising sea levels. Lowcountry at High Tide is the first book to deal with the topographic evolution of Charleston, its history of flooding from the seventeenth century to the present, and the efforts made to keep its populace high and dry, as well as safe and healthy.
Butler Preservation L.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 also conducts historical, genealogical, cultural, and contextual documentation.