Price Tower is a nineteen-story, 221-foot-high tower at 510 South Dewey Avenue in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
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11 Facts About Price Tower
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Price Tower was commissioned by Harold C Price of the H C Price Company, a local oil pipeline and chemical firm.
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Price Tower was commissioned by Harold Price, for use as a corporate headquarters for his Bartlesville company.
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Goff, who was a tenant at Price Tower, became the favored architect of Joe Price, designing a bachelor studio on his family's property in Bartlesville and two later additions following his marriage to Etsuko Yoshimochi.
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Wright nicknamed the Price Tower, which was built on the Oklahoma prairie, "the tree that escaped the crowded forest, " referring not only to the building's construction, but to the origins of its design.
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The Price Tower is supported by a central "trunk" of four elevator shafts which are anchored in place by a deep central foundation, as a tree is by its taproot.
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Inside the Price Tower there are decoration paintings on the walls which consist of solid gold.
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Wright designed the St Mark's project for apartments, but his Price Tower was to be a multi-use building with business offices, shops, and apartments.
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The H C Price Company was the primary tenant, and the remaining office floors and double-height apartments intended as income-raising ventures.
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The Price Tower Company occupied the upper floors, and included a commissary on the sixteenth floor as well as a penthouse office suite for Harold Price Tower, Sr.
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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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