Stephen Decatur Button

Arch Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1855).

Stephen Decatur Button (June 15, 1813, in Preston, Connecticut – January 7, 1897, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American architect and a pioneer in the use of metal-frame construction for masonry buildings.[1] He designed commercial buildings, schools and churches in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey; and more than 30 buildings in Cape May, New Jersey.

  1. ^ Stephen Decatur Button from Encyclopædia Britannica.