Wylie F. L. Tuttle

Wylie Fay Leon Tuttle (died April 5, 2002) was an American real estate developer who was behind the construction of the Tour Montparnasse, the tallest building in Europe upon its completion in 1972.

Biography A native New Yorker, Tuttle (born in 1923) graduated from Columbia College in 1944. He was a member of the Delta Phi fraternity and rowed for the varsity crew team. He was a Navy pilot in the Pacific theater during World War II. After the war, he joined the real estate firm known then as Brown, Wheelock, Harris & Stevens in New York. He then founded Collins-Tuttle with Arthur Collins in 1954. He served as president of the company until he died. Tuttle and his associate, Herbert Papock, eventually enlisted a consortium of 17 French insurance companies and seven banks in the $140-million multiple-building project that became known as the Tour Montparnasse. The financing was led by French industrialist Jean-Claude Aaron.

After the complex was finished, Tuttle turned over the management to his French partners. He died on April 5, 2002, at his home at age 79.