Glass and Butner was an architectural partnership of Edward Francis Glass and Charles Edgar Butner based in

Fresno, California Fresno (; ) is a city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States. It is the county seat of Fresno County, California, Fresno County and the largest city in the greater Central Valley (California), Central Valley region. It covers a ...

. It operated from 1914 to around 1922. The two developed a proposal for a design competition for the Veterans' Memorial Building. Several of their works are listed on the

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(NRHP). Glass (March 8, 1885 - January 31, 1954) was born in San Francisco and grew up in Fresno, where he attended

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. He worked as a draftsman for two architectural firms in Philadelphia. He achieved a Certificate of Proficiency in Architecture in 1912, perhaps in Pennsylvania or perhaps in California. Butner (July 31, 1888 - June 10, 1957) was born in Pennsylvania. He served in

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as a pilot in the

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. In 1922 there was some controversy, involving an article published as an interview, and statement of a member of the firm not being certified as an architect. Glass denounced the article in a letter to the

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. Works by the firm include: *

Fresno Republican Printery Building The Fresno Republican Printery Building, at 2130 Kern St. in Fresno, California, was built in 1919 to publish the ''Fresno Morning Republican''. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It was designed by architects Gla ...

(1919), 2130 Kern St.,

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(Butner, Charles; Glass, Edward), NRHP-listed *

Physicians Building The Physicians Building in Fresno, California, at 2607 Fresno St., was built in 1926. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is a building of office units opening out into a central, interior courtyard topped by a l ...

(1926), 2607 Fresno St.,

(Butner, Charles E.), NRHP-listed *

Twining Laboratories Twining Laboratories, at 2527 Fresno St. in Fresno, California, was built in 1930. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It was designed in Mediterranean Revival Mediterranean Revival is an architectural ...

, 2527 Fresno St.,

(Butner, Charles E.), NRHP-listed Butner separately worked with Robert Stanton around 1936.

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