Price Tower Detail
by Jenny Revitz Soper
Title
Price Tower Detail
Artist
Jenny Revitz Soper
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Price Tower in Bartlesville Oklahoma is one of two realized skyscrapers designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright in 1952 for The H.C. Price Company.
Price Tower was a multi-use building with business offices, shops, and apartments. The H. C. Price Company was the primary tenant, and the remaining office floors and double-height apartments were leased to lawyers, accountants, physicians, dentists, insurance agents, and the architect Bruce Goff, who kept an office and rented one of the apartments. A women's high-end dress shop, beauty salon, and the regional offices of the Public Service Company of Oklahoma occupied the two-story wing of the tower, with a drive-through passageway separating the high and low structures. The Price Company occupied the upper floors, and included a commissary on the sixteenth floor as well as a penthouse office suite for members of the Price family
The H.C. Price Company sold Price Tower to Phillips Petroleum in 1981. Phillips deemed the exterior exit staircase a safety risk, and only used the building for storage. In 2000, the building was donated to Price Tower Arts Center, and it has returned to its multi-use origins including a museum of art, architecture, and design; Inn at Price Tower; Copper Restaurant + Bar, and the Wright Place museum store are the current major tenants with smaller firms leasing space. Inn at Price Tower is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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November 22nd, 2017
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