Tabler was born in Momence, Illinois, and received his bachelor"s and master"s degrees from Harvard. 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, District of Columbia
Harvard University.
He was best known for giving Hilton hotels the clean but sometimes stark face of corporate America, most notably in the 46-story slablike New York Hilton near Rockefeller Center. After serving in the United States Navy during the World World War II, he became head of Statler"s in-house architecture department in 1946. He formed his own practice, William B Tabler Architects, in 1955.
Tabler"s designs affected generations of travelers after World World War II when downtown hotels began to look more and more like the office buildings around them.
Tabler died at his home in Upper Brookville, New York at the age of 89. Dallas Statler Hilton (1956)
Hilton New York (1963)
Hilton Pittsburgh (1959)
Hilton Washington (1965)
InterContinental Dhaka (1966)
Hotel Ponce Intercontinental (1960-1975)
Grand Hyatt Cairo (2000).
