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February 11, 2004
Architect William Tabler, Sr., who designed
over 400 hotels, including the 46-story New York Hilton near
Rockefeller Center, died on February 3. He was 89. A Harvard
graduate, Tabler joined the Chicago firm Holabird & Root in
1939 where he worked on the 1,000-room Statler Hotel in Washington.
He would later head Statler's in-house architecture department
before starting his own practice in 1955. Tabler designed
Hilton hotels in Baltimore, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Pittsburgh,
Washington and St. Paul; Statler hotels in Dallas and Hartford;
and InterContinental hotels worldwide.
By Tony Illia
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