Skip to main content

Charles E. Butner Papers

Owning Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

About this Collection

The Charles Edgar Butner Papers contain sketches and drawings from the architect's travels in California and Europe, newspaper clippings, photographs, ephemera, and a scrapbook on his service as an aviator in World War I and limited information on Butner's commissions in the San Joaquin Valley and Monterey Bay area in California. View this collection on the contributor's website.
View collection guide.

View our statement on digital primary resources and historical description.

Go to Institution Page

25 items found in this collection

of 2
American Institute of Architects membership card
[Arched bridge with towers], colored pencil on paperboard, undated
Carmel Mission, Carmel, Calif., colored pencil sketch, undated
Charles Butner Residence, [7 San Joaquin St., Salinas, CA ?] black-and-white print, …
Charles Butner Residence, [7 San Joaquin St., Salinas, CA ?],pencil sketch on …
Charles E. Butner, architect
Charles E. Butner piloting biplane
Coast Monastery, watercolor on paperboard, c. 1918
French Street Scene, watercolor on paperboard, c. 1918
General Sherman's Headquarters, Monterey, Calif., pencil on flimsy [pencil on trace], 1933
Ghost Town, watercolor on paper, undated
Iberian Fortified Bridge, house paint on masonite, undated
Iberian village, watercolor on paper, 1932
Mission Inn, Riverside, Calif., colored pencil on paperboard, 1923
Moses, charcoal on paper, undated
North African Street Scene, pencil on paperboard, undated [archway]
North African Street Scene, pencil on paperboard, undated [archway with tower]
Philadelphia City Hall, pencil on heavy-ply paper, 1911
Postcard of Charles E. Butner
Rabat, Morocco, watercolor on paperboard, 1944
Riverside, Calif. cityscape, colored pencil on paperboard, 1923
Semur-en-Auxois, France, watercolor on paperboard, c. 1918
Southern France, pencil and watercolor on paper, undated
Spanish Walls, watercolor on paper, 1943
of 2