William Henry Kessler

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William Henry Kessler (December 15, 1924 – November 16, 2002) was an American Modernist architect. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, his father Fred H. Kessler started a cooperative lumber company in the 1930s. He earned a BA in architecture from the Chicago Institute of Design in 1948 and studied with Walter Gropius at Harvard University, before being recruited by Minoru Yamasaki and working in Michigan. Kessler later formed Meathe, Kessler and Associates with Phil Meathe, and in 1959 designed the William and Margot Kessler House for his family at a cost of about $30,000.

Meathe, Kessler and Associates dissolved in 1968, after which Kessler started his own firm. His work spanned single-family houses, public housing, college and university buildings, and hospitals. Notable projects include the William and Margot Kessler House, the Michigan Science Center, and the W. Hawkins Ferry House. He was married to Margot Walbrecker (1946–2002) and had two children, Chevonne Kessler Patten and Tamara Kessler Checkley. Kessler died in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, at age 77.