William B. Tabler

William Benjamin Tabler Sr. (October 28, 1914 – February 3, 2004) was an American architect who designed more than 400 hotels.

In 1939 he joined the Chicago firm Holabird & Root, where he worked on his first big hotel project, the 1,000-room Statler Hotel in Washington, D.C.[1] After serving in the United States Navy Reserve from 1943 to 1946, he became head of Statler's in-house architecture department in 1946.

[1] Tabler's designs affected generations of travelers after World War II when downtown hotels began to look more and more like the office buildings around them.

Tabler designed the 2,153-room Hilton New York near Rockefeller Center in 1963 with David P. Dann for a partnership called Rock-Hil-Uris for its principals: Laurance S. Rockefeller, Conrad Hilton, and Percy Uris and Harold Uris.

His son, William B. Tabler Jr., is also an architect and continues the architectural practice in Manhattan.