Price Tower/Frank Llyod Wright Skyscraper
Bartlesville, Oklahoma was not on my bucket list.
My daughter lives in Tulsa and suggested we visit Bartlesville and stay in the Price Tower, a forty-five-minute drive from her home.
Price Tower, located in Bartlesville, is one of the only two “skyscrapers” designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
The Price Tower caught my eye and I wanted to visit and find out more about it.
Lisa, my daughter, is not a Frank Lloyd Wright follower, but I am a volunteer tour guide at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona and she wanted to give me a birthday present. She made a reservation at the Price Tower for one night. She knows what makes her mom happy.
The tower is nineteen stories tall. It opened in 1956. FLW originally designed Price Tower as a skyscraper in Manhattan, New York in the 1930s. The project never went forward because of the Depression.
The Price Tower was called “the tree that escaped the crowded forest”. The crowded forest was Manhattan. The rooms within the building branch out like those of a tree. The trunk of the tree makes its way through the center of the building. There are three elevators and each floor. They are big enough for two people and one suitcase. Ascending the floors on the elevator feels like traveling through the trunk of a tree.
