22 www.CharlestonWomenPodcast.com | www.ReadCW.com | www.Instagram.com/CharlestonWomen Charleston Women in Business Thanks in part to the following women who have stamped their unique passions onto our collective legacy, Charleston gracefully functions within a juxtaposed space of preserving soulful history while embracing cultural changes and modern practices. CHRISTINA BUTLER, BUTLER PRESERVATION Growing up binging on “This Old House”, Christina Butler took every building class she could in high school. As one of only two girls enrolled in a two-year trades program, she learned construction, carpentry and project management. At 18, Butler moved from her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio to Charleston for the exposure to architecture and to attend College of Charleston, where she earned a degree in preservation and community planning. After graduation, Butler became an archivist in the Main Library South Carolina Reading Room, where she said she became a stronger researcher and writer. That’s when she realized she wanted to become a teacher, and so she obtained her master’s in American history. Now dean of the American College of the Building Arts and owner and founder of Butler Preservation, Butler’s passion is educating students, architects and contractors about historic buildings. “I love learning the human backstories of who lived and died in these houses, and who used the buildings and how,” Butler said. Thanks to Butler’s lifetime commitment to the trades and recording her findings in books and academic press, countless histories and mysteries of Charleston will be preserved for eternity. To learn more about Butler’s work, visit ButlerPreservation.com. BRITTANY LAVELLE TULLA By utilizing resources such as family papers, letters, journals, diaries, calendars, wills, death records and photo archives from the Charleston Library and Museum, architectural historian Brittany Lavelle Tulla builds timelines for her clients that reveal the story of their building’s origin and evolution. Whether Lavelle Tulla is opening up walls in a stately old home South of Broad to discover fragments of 18th century wallpaper Preserving Charleston Then and Now The five most unique women-run businesses BY SARAH ROSE Christina Butler in her workshop. Photo by Beth Phillips.
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