Frederick Charles Button [also known as Charles C. Button] was born in Newbury, West Berkshire, England on 11 May 1901. He is believed to have been articled to Thomas Wallis of Wallis, Gilbert & Partners and between c.1933 and c.1936 he is listed in the Royal Institute of British Architects' Kalendar as working for Wallis Gilbert & Partners. He then established the architectural firm Adie, Button & Partners in London with George Mountford Adie (1901-1989)
The practice was active for at least the next two decades. Architectural projects by the Adie, Button & Partners included Park Lane Hotel in Piccadilly, London (1927); 59-63 Princes Gate, South Kensington, London (1937-38); Charters House in Sunningdale, Berkshire (1938); and Stockwell Garage, a Grade II* bus garage in Stockwell, London (completed in 1952).
Button was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1925 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1942.
His address was given as 5 St. Hilda Road, Folkestone. Kent in 1928; Coastal Chambers, 5 Elizabeth Street, Buckingham Palace Road, London in 1933; "Orchardleigh", Ickenham Road, Ruislip, Middlesex in 1931 and 1939; 30 George Street, Hanover Square, London in 1939; and 29 Weymouth Street, London in 1950. He died in London on 2 August 1969
Clarke, Bridget. ‘Charters, Berkshire; Architects: 1938 George Adie, and Frederick C. Button, of Adie Button & Partners’. Thirties Society Journal no. 2, 1982 pp. 35-40
‘Bus garage at Stockwell for London Transport Executive’ [Architects: Adie Button & Partners] Architect & Building News 12 November 1953 pp. 579-582
'Bus garage at Stockwell for London Transport Executive’ [Architects: Adie Button & Partners] Architects’ Journal 31 December 1953 pp. 820-822.
‘Bus garage at Stockwell for London Transport Executive’. [Architects: Adie Button & Partners] Building December 1953 pp. 464-465
‘Bus garage, for the London Transport Executive in Whitehall Road, Thornton Heath’ [Architects: Adie Button & Partners] Architects’ Journal 29 January 1953 pp. 163-166.
‘Bus garage, for the London Transport Executive in Whitehall Road, Thornton Heath’ [Architects: Adie Button & Partners]. Architectural Review June 1953 pp. 396-397
‘Concrete helical staircase for the A. P. V. factory, Crawley’ [Architects: Adie, Button & Partners]. Concrete Quarterly no. 30, July-September 1956 pp. 23-26
‘Electroflo works, Park Royal, Wembley’. [Architects: Adie Button & Partners]. Building Septembe r 1937 p. 371
‘Factory for Concrete Development Co., Ltd., Iver, Bucks.; Architects’ [Architects: Adie, Button & Partners] Architects' Journal 24 March 1949 pp, 275-277
‘Flats with air-raid shelter, Princes Gate, S. W.’ [Architect: Adie Button & Partners]. The Builder 11 March 1938 p.501
‘Office block Wandsworth’ [Architects: Adie, Button & Partners] Architects' Journal 14 December 1939 p. 711
‘Roman Catholic School, Twickenham’. [Architects: Adie, Button, & Partners]. Architect & Building News 7 May 1937 p. 163