The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Butler, Howard Crosby

BUTLER, Howard Crosby, American educator: b. Croton Falls, N. Y., 7 March 1872. He was educated at Princeton University, at the Columbia School of Architecture and at the American schools of Classical Studies in Rome and in Athens. In 1899, 1904 and 1909 he led three archæological expeditions in Syria. In 1905 he was appointed professor of the history of architecture at Princeton. His publications are ‘Scotland's Ruined Abbeys’ (1900); ‘The Story of Athens’ (1902); ‘Architecture,’ Part II of ‘Publications of American Expedition to Syria’ (1903); ‘Ancient Architecture in Syria,’ in Division II of ‘Publications of Princeton Expedition to Syria’; also papers in archæological journals.