Thomas U. Butts House

Thomas V. Butts House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The house in 2025
Location	1214 3rd Ave. Columbus, Georgia
Coordinates	32°28′09″N84°59′20″W / 32.46917°N 84.98889°W / 32.46917; -84.98889
Area	less than one acre
Built	1896
Architectural style	Prairie School
MPS	Columbus MRA
NRHP reference No.	80001146 [1]
Added to NRHP	September 29, 1980

The Thomas U. Butts House, at 1214 3rd Ave. in Columbus, Georgia, was built in 1896 and was extensively renovated into Prairie School style in 1928. ^[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. ^[1]

It is a two-story balloon frame house with a clay tile hipped roof and two exterior chimneys. Originally showing a weatherboarded exterior, the house's 1928 renovation covered the weatherboarding with brick laid in stretcher bond. It has a central entrance with a Classical Revival-styled porch. ^[2]

It was built for W. I. Struppa, a purser who lived there until 1904. It was sold in 1908 to Thomas Usher Butts, "a wizard of the lumber business", who raised his family there; descendants occupied the home until 1959. ^[2]

Its National Register listing was within a batch of numerous Columbus properties determined to be eligible consistent with a 1980 study of historic resources in Columbus. ^[3]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. Nancy Alexander; Roger Harris; Janice P. Biggers (1980). "Georgia Architectural and Historic Properties Survey-Inventory of Historic Resources of Columbus, Muscogee County: Thomas U. Butts House". National Park Service . Retrieved January 2, 2020. Includes photo from 1980.
3. Nancy Alexander; Janice Biggers (June 30, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Historic Resources of Columbus, Georgia, Multiple Resource Area". National Park Service . Retrieved January 2, 2020.