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Built in 1965-1966, this Organic Modern building was designed by William Wesley Peters of Taliesin Associated Architects and built by Robert E. McKee for the Lincoln Income Life Insurance Company, and was originally known as the Lincoln Tower, with a smaller podium building, attached to the main structure with a canopy, which housed a branch of the Liberty National Bank and Trust Company. The building was purchased by the Kaden Company in 1986, and subsequently became known as the Kaden Tower. The building stands 196 feet (60 meters) tall, with a main massing that cantilevers above the base, which is clad in a screen made up of interlocking circles and curves, a cantilevered penthouse at the top of the tower, a vertical circulation tower on one side of the building, with an external glass-enclosed elevator that rises inside a lace-like metal enclosure, an elliptical and cylindrical one-story attached podium building with a similar exterior screen to the one on the exterior of the tower, which originally housed a bank branch, and is attached to the main building via a simple rectilinear canopy, and a domed podium at the base of the tower, surrounded by a pond, with a covered concrete terrace, and domed skylights. The building today has been renamed the Wright Tower, as it was heavily influenced by the design philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright, and was designed by a group of people who worked for Wright, despite being built after Wright's death. The building remains in use as an office building, with an upscale Ruth's Chris Steakhouse in the top floor.