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CHANGING THE SKYLINE An Autobiography

Paul Starrett

Book Description: Whittlesey House, New York London, 1938. Hardcover book in very good condition, no dust jacket. This is a first edition book.

An Autobiography of Paul Starrett (1866-1957) , with the collaboration of Webb Waldron and a foreword by Bob Davis. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpage.

Starrett was an American builder who served as president of the George A. Fuller Company in Chicago and then opened the construction firm of Starrett Brothers in New York City.

Starret built some of the country's greatest structures, including New York City's EMPIRE STATE BUILDING. Among buildings Starrett constructed in New York were the Pennsylvanis Railroad Station, the New York Life, Metropolitan Life, Bank of Manhattan and Flatiron Buildings, Macy's Department Store, and the Plaza, Biltmore, Commodore and Pennsylvania (now Statler) Hotels.

The Lincoln Memorial in Washington was erected by the Fuller Company under his direction.

Other buildings are: the Statler Hotels in Cleveland and Detroit and the Munsey Building and the new Willard Hotel in Washington. He also built the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago and structures in Baltimore and other cities.

Black and white frontispiece and illustrations from photos. Green cloth with hardcover boards.

Tipped into this book is a 1939 letter from Oliver Hewitt, whose father was an associate of Starrett's. Another letter in response to this letter, from 1939, is tipped into the book from Paul Starrett, on his firm's stationary, signed by him and states he is looking forward to visiting Mr. Hewitt. Please see photos. Also laid into the book is a 1957 obituary of Paul Starrett.