^ 'Butterick Magazines to Merge' (PDF).International Directory of Company Histories. ^ 'Fire-Resistant Construction in the Butterick Building, New York'.The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing Through World History: 1801 to the present. These continued to be sold from fabric and sewing-supplies stores like Jo-Ann Fabrics and Hancock Fabrics Walmart commenced to offer them as well. In 2001, The McCall Pattern Company acquired Butterick and Vogue Patterns, and it still continued printing and marketing sewing patterns in and under all three lines as of the middle of February 2016. In 1988 Wilson was succeeded as chief executive officer by John Lehmann. In 1988 management sold approximately 60 percent of the company to Robert Bass's Acadia Investors. William Proctor Wilson was the first chief executive officer of the privatized Butterick. In 1983 Butterick's management group headed by Bill Wilson and John Lehmann purchased the company from American Can Company. In the 1970s, sewing lost popularity and sales began to suffer. The company was purchased in 1967 by American Can Company and became a subsidiary renamed the Butterick Fashion Marketing Co. In 1961, Butterick licensed the name and trademark Vogue Patterns from Condé Nast Publications, Inc. One of Butterick's subsidiary companies was the Ridgway Company, which they purchased in 1909 and published the pulp magazines Romance, Everybody's Magazine and Adventure. Latshaw was president of the Butterick Publishing Co. Parts of the building interior were designed by Louis Tiffany, and it housed the second largest printing plant in the world (second only to the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.). The building, which still stands, is 16 stories tall and has an additional two stories underground. In 1903, the company built the Butterick Building at Spring Street and MacDougal Street (now Sixth Avenue) in Manhattan. had become a worldwide enterprise selling patterns as far away as Paris, London, Vienna and Berlin, with 100 branch offices and 1,000 agencies throughout the United States and Canada. The magazine served as a marketing tool for Butterick patterns and discussed fashion and fabrics, including advice for home sewists. In 1873, the two magazines were merged into a single publication, The Delineator. Both magazines were aimed at women and served as a means to sell Butterick paper patterns via mail order. In 1868, the monthly magazine The Metropolitan began publication. began publishing Ladies Quarterly of Broadway Fashions.

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