Location: Bartlesville, Oklahoma USA
Original owner: Harold C. Price
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright originally designed in 1929 for New York City - was the only realized skyscraper designed by Wright - built 1953-1956 by wealthy pipeline construction captain of industry [Price] for his corporate headquarters.
"Price Tower was designed as four quadrants based on the geometry of a 30-60-90° double parallelogram module—one quadrant for double-height apartments and three quadrants for private offices. Initially, there were eight apartments in the building, with Bruce Goff living and working in the Price Tower for nearly nine years. The first and second floors of the Price Tower were designed for retail and housed a women’s dress shop, a beauty salon, and the offices of the Public Service Company of Oklahoma. On the floors above there were a variety of professional offices with the Price Company occupying the top seven floors of the tower including a sixteenth-floor commissary where free lunches were prepared and served to their employees. The seventeenth and eighteenth floors housed the Price Company corporate apartment and the company’s conference room. The nineteenth floor penthouse was the office suite for H.C. Price and his assistant."
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