A photograph supposedly showing "millions" of colorful buttons littering a dilapidated staircase has been circulating on social media for several years, attached to the claim that the image was taken ...

PORTSMOUTH — Mark your calendar for the Button Factory Open Studios, one of the oldest and most eagerly anticipated holiday arts events on the Seacoast. Celebrating its 35th year, the event will be ...

PORTSMOUTH — For decades, the Button Factory’s Open Studios have marked the beginning of the holiday season, and holiday shopping. For 2020, the Open Studios will go "virtual" with a weekend event ...

Tonight, The Button Factory in Portsmouth has served as a creative home for hundereds of artists over the years. Jennifer Crompton checks out its magic, through the eyes, and art, of two long-standing ...

A likely few have ever taken notice of the one-time button factory off Monroe Avenue near Interstate 490. Behind the Hess gas station, the vacant, five-story building is notable for a bright yellow ...

I met with Button Factory Arts executive director Heather Franklin last week, as we do from time to time to catch up on things. This time the main topic of conversation was some special programming ...

PORTSMOUTH — The Button Factory Open Studios, now in its 24th year, is billed one of the oldest and most eagerly anticipated holiday arts events on the Seacoast. The artists in the building open their ...

Hidden beneath floating candles atop each table are small assortments of white buttons. Some are perfectly shaped and others are unfinished, but all are evidence of the rich history not only of the ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa — The Button Factory Restaurant has been sold and owners Tom and Ann Meeker have handed over the keys to another family with area ties. Sisters Becky Bonnichsen of Letts, Iowa, and Jan ...

Clam shell gatherers were the front line in the booming pearl button business in 1897. Congress that year approved a favorable tariff law, the Dingley Act, giving American manufacturers an advantage ...