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South Mills, NC Butt's Dream House - James Butt 1894-1973 Environment

Information: "Unfortunately what was perhaps the most remarkable personal historical environment in North Carolina is now in ruins. Carpenter and brickmason Jim Butt built a multistory brick-and-cement tower known as Butt's Dream House and covered it with historical references and quotations ranging in scope from Cicero and Constantine to Miles Standish and Barry Goldwater, stamped in cement along with embedded mirrors, sea shells, and other found objects. One sign near the entrance included the words "Shangri La." Butt created a system for personalizing history that could completely surround him with historical and literary references, enclosing and protecting him in structures revealed to him in his dreams, while at the same time publicly proclaiming the connections to anyone who drove by." © Copyright Roger Manley, "Signs and Wonders, Outsider Art Inside North Carolina" by Roger Manley , out of print.

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Bibliography: Roger Manley, "Signs and Wonders, Outsider Art Inside North Carolina" by Roger Manley , out of print. "Self-Made Worlds: Visionary Environments" by Roger Manley and Mark Sloan, Aperture, New York, 1997. "Weird Carolina" by Roger Manley, Sterling Publishing Co. 2007.

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