Bartlesville, OK Phillips Petroleum Building and Price Tower
The Price Tower was commissioned by Harold C. Price of the H. C. Price Company, a local oil pipeline and chemical firm. It opened to the public in February 1956.
The Price Tower is nationally significant as one of two completed designs for "high-rise buildings during Frank Lloyd Wright's long career, and the only one that might "be appropriately termed a "skyscraper." It was one of a group of sixteen Wright buildings singled-out in 1959 by the American Institute of Architects and the National Trust for Historic Preservation as his most important "to the nation [and]...which ought to be preserved in their original form."
The Price Tower is on the National Register #74001670, and it is also on a National Historic Landmark.
Bartlesville, OK Phillips Petroleum Building and Price Tower
The Price Tower was commissioned by Harold C. Price of the H. C. Price Company, a local oil pipeline and chemical firm. It opened to the public in February 1956.
The Price Tower is nationally significant as one of two completed designs for "high-rise buildings during Frank Lloyd Wright's long career, and the only one that might "be appropriately termed a "skyscraper." It was one of a group of sixteen Wright buildings singled-out in 1959 by the American Institute of Architects and the National Trust for Historic Preservation as his most important "to the nation [and]...which ought to be preserved in their original form."
The Price Tower is on the National Register #74001670, and it is also on a National Historic Landmark.