Career
A native of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, after visiting the Panama-California Exposition (1915), he moved to Tucson and began working in an elegantly simplified Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture. Starkweather buildings reflect a sophisticated understanding of the Art Deco movement – both the Starweather Home on Adams Street and in El Encanto Estates are examples of Pueblo Deco Style. Perhaps his most significant building is the Arizona Inn: a series of lush courtyards and pink plastered buildings commissioned by Isabella Greenway.
In 1937, he founded the Arizona chapter of the American Institute of Architects and in 1968 was named an American Institute of Architects Fellow.
He founded the Tucson Blueprint Company before World War I.
Starkweather married Otilia Jettinghoff (Lily) on August 6, 1921 and died in 1972 in Tucson. Carrillo School
District of Columbia Doolen Junior High School
Drachman School
Saint John's School
Tucson High School Stadium
Ignacio Bonillas School
Tucson City Shops
Marshall Stores in University Square
City fire stations
Arizona Inn
American Legion Club
Frontier Village Buildings
Saint Mary's Addition and Sister’s Home
Saint Joseph Academy
Grandstand and cucking chutes at Tucson’s Rodeo Grounds
South Lawn Crematorium
McClellan Stores
Hal Burns Flower Shop
Consumers Market on South 6th Avenue
Myerson’s Store Building on Congress and Church
Masonic Temple Addition
M.H. Starkweather stores, 6th and Tucson Boulevard
Multiple residences in El Encanto Estates
Women's Club, Safford, Arizona
School at Pima Arizona
Elk’s Lodge, Nogales, Arizona
Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona – home, servants" quarters, museums.
Casa Grande Hospital, 1951.
