ABOUT WILLIAM A STARRETT
American builder and architect of skyscrapers who was best known as the builder of the Empire State Building in New York City. He and his brothers worked together for companies which started the concept of building American skyscrapers.
He attended the University of Michigan but had to leave his studies in 1895.
He sent steel construction technology to Japan to help design buildings to resist earthquakes. He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Associated General Contractors of America.
He is the son of William Aiken Starrett Sr. and Helen Martha Starrett. He had four brothers and two sisters. He was married to Eloise and they had a daughter, Helen Ruth, and a son, David.
He and I. M. Pei were both architects.
