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Alfred Mosher Butts (April 13, 1899 – April 4, 1993) was an American architect, famous for inventing the board game Scrabble in 1938.
Butts, Alfred Mosher ( b . 13 April 1899 in Poughkeepsie, New York ; d . 4 April 1993 in Rhinebeck, New York ), architect and inventor of the board game Scrabble. Butts was the youngest of five boys born to Allison Butts, a lawyer, and Arrie Elizabeth Mosher, a high school teacher.
Apr 7, 1993 · Alfred M. Butts, who as a jobless architect in the Depression invented the enduringly popular board game Scrabble, died on Sunday at a hospital in his hometown, Rhinebeck, N.Y. He was 93.
Dec 26, 2019 · On the morning of March 18, 1985, Alfred Mosher Butts, the inventor of Scrabble, boarded a private plane at the Dutchess County Airport outside of Poughkeepsie, New York, and flew to Burlington...
After being laid off from his job at an architecture firm in 1931, Alfred Mosher Butts fell on hard times. He was out of work for quite some time when he decided to get creative. With his newfound spare time, he thought he would try to invent a game.
Apr 10, 1993 · Alfred Mosher Butts, an architect who created the durable board game Scrabble, which he dubbed simply “It” six decades ago, has died. He was 93.
Aug 19, 2002 · Alfred Mosher Butts, an out-of-work architect, invented a game that players say perfectly balances skill and luck, risk and reward. As part of Morning...
Sep 11, 2015 · The game also formerly known as It and Criss-Cross Words acquired its lasting moniker in 1948, but its story begins 15 years earlier, when a 32-year-old architect named Alfred Mosher Butts...
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings. Title: Frankfort Street, New York. Artist: Alfred Mosher Butts (American, Poughkeepsie, New York 1899–1993) Date: ca. 1931. Medium: Blueprint process on gray paper.
Apr 8, 1993 · Alfred Mosher Butts, architect and inventor: born 1900; died Rhinebeck, New York 4 April 1993. ALFRED BUTTS was one of those men whose invention, the word-game Scrabble, became bigger than he...
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