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57-513: The Price Tower is a nineteen-story, 221-foot-high tower at 510 South Dewey Avenue in Bartlesville , Oklahoma , United States. Built in 1956, it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright . It is the only realized skyscraper by Wright and is one of only two vertically oriented Wright structures extant; the other is the S.C. Johnson Wax Research Tower in Racine , Wisconsin . Harold C. Price of

114-691: A Wright building. Wright constructed Hillside , otherwise known as the "Harold Price Jr. House", in Bartlesville in the 1953-1954 timeframe. This Usonian home has two stories and an L-shaped hipped roof. It is one of only three Wright buildings in Oklahoma, along with the Price Tower and Westhope in Tulsa . The nearby Bartlesville High School marching band, the Bruin Brigade, performed

171-540: A bank of the Caney River, near Bartlesville. Before its merger with Conoco , Phillips Petroleum Company had its headquarters in Bartlesville. After ConocoPhillips formed, the combined company established a global systems and services office in Bartlesville. ConocoPhillips spun most of its operations not related to exploration and production to form a new company, Phillips 66 , in 2012. The two companies combined employ or contract with more than 3,800 people in

228-480: A central "trunk" of four elevator shafts anchored in place by a deep central foundation as if a tree were by its taproot. The nineteen floors of the building are cantilevered from this central core, like the branches of a tree. The outer walls hang from the floors and are clad in patinated copper "leaves." The building is asymmetrical, and like a tree, "looks different from every angle." Wright had championed these design ideas, which other architects had put to use before

285-559: A classic cars show. A second classic air show and festival is held in the fall. An Oklahoma Indian Summer Festival is held at the Community Center downtown each fall. Bartlesville's downtown revitalization efforts are in full swing, with many blocks of the National Register Historic District, and the catalyst project, the once burned out May Brothers and 1904 Buildings, coming to completion at

342-533: A destructive tornado hit Bartlesville, causing severe damage. This was the same tornado that had earlier caused extensive damage and at least one fatality in Barnsdall . A Hampton Inn hotel was severely damaged by the tornado. As it moved through Barnsdall, the tornado was given a preliminary rating of EF4 by the NWS , but it is unknown if the tornado maintained that intensity as it reached Bartlesville. According to

399-470: A female householder with no husband present, and 32.5% were non-families. 29.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.35 and the average family size was 2.89. In the city, the population was spread out, with 24.9% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 24.8% from 25 to 44, 23.7% from 45 to 64, and 18.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

456-461: A marching show called "Skyscraper, The Tree That Escaped The Crowded Forest" in 2022. The Bruin Brigade performed the show in front of the Price Tower with its own miniature tower. The show was about the Price Tower because of the transfer of band directors and to honor the town of Bartlesville with its most recognizable building. Articles Books Bartlesville, Oklahoma Bartlesville

513-404: A move to Dallas, where their company is presently located. Phillips Petroleum's lawyers deemed the exterior exit staircase a safety risk and only used the building for storage. They retained ownership until 2000 when the building was donated to Price Tower Arts Center, and it has returned to its multi-use origins. Price Tower Arts Center, a museum of art, architecture, and design; Inn at Price Tower;

570-475: A natural lake south of the present city of Bartlesville. In 1874, he opened a trading post and post office on Turkey Creek, in what is now East Bartlesville. In the following year, he bought a grist mill on the Caney River and modified it to produce flour. Bartles then built a two-story general store and residence, and added a rooming house, a blacksmith shop and a livery stable. Other settlers soon moved into

627-601: A population of 51,843 in 2018. A small portion of the city is in Osage County . The city is also part of the Tulsa Combined Statistical Area , with a population of 1,151,172 in 2015. Bartlesville is notable as the longtime home of Phillips Petroleum Company . Frank Phillips founded Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville in 1905 when the area was still an Indian Territory . The company merged with Conoco as ConocoPhillips and later split into

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684-596: A restaurant; and the Wright Place museum store are the current major tenants with smaller firms leasing space. The Inn at Price Tower is a member of Historic Hotels of America , the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation . It is on the 2021 list of Top 25 Historic Hotels of America Most Magnificent Art Collections. In 2002, the Pritzker Prize –winning architect Zaha Hadid

741-658: A site to the World Heritage List." However, after a 2016 nomination to the World Heritage List was rejected by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee , a revised 2018 proposal removed the Price Tower from consideration. The revised nomination of eight Frank Lloyd Wright buildings was accepted in July 2019 as The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright . The tower was sold in 2023 for $ 10 to Copper Tree Inc., which had planned to restore

798-497: A starting bid of $ 600,000. The auction was halted amid a lawsuit over whether an earlier sale agreement covering the structure was still in force. Copper Tree sued the Frank Lloyd Wright Conservancy in mid-October, requesting that a judge nullify the conservancy's liens on the building. If the dispute is resolved, the building is scheduled to go up for bid again in mid-November. The Price Tower Arts Center

855-639: Is a city mostly in Washington County and Osage County, Oklahoma . The population was 37,290 at the 2020 census . Bartlesville is 47 miles (76 km) north of Tulsa and 18 miles (29 km) south of the Kansas border. It is the county seat of Washington County. The Caney River runs through Bartlesville. Bartlesville is the primary city of the Bartlesville Micropolitan area, which consists of Washington County and had

912-455: Is a single-runway airport. Runway 17/35 is a concrete runway that is 6,850' by 100'. It has terminal and fixed-base operations and is owned by the City of Bartlesville. In the early 1950s, the airport hosted commercial air transportation provided by Central Airlines . Commercial air transportation is now available at Tulsa International Airport, about 45 miles south. Bartlesville is served by

969-579: Is free. A Wall of Honor is inside Washington Park Mall, with names of service members listed on panels beside cabinets that display military artifacts, photos, story boards, POW / MIA listings, and other exhibits. A special display honors Lance Corporal Thomas A. Blair, Oklahoma's first casualty during the Iraq War . Bruce Goff designed Shin'enKan ("The House of the Far Away Heart") in 1956. Built for Joe D. Price as his house and studio, it

1026-581: Is in the Bartlesville school district, while a few parts in the north are covered by Dewey Public Schools . In regards to sections in Osage County, parts are covered by the Bartlesville school district, while other parts are covered by Dewey Public Schools, and Osage Hills Public School . Private schools in Bartlesville include St. John School, a Catholic school of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa ; Coram Deo Classical Academy, and

1083-441: Is no longer the headquarters, the company still has many employees in the community. In 2002, Phillips Petroleum merged with Conoco Oil Company and became ConocoPhillips . Bartlesville was originally a sundown town where African Americans were not allowed to live. By 1907, the restriction had been lifted, and newspapers noted the town's first natural death of an African American, a man named Robert McGee. In 1957, Bartlesville

1140-403: Is the art complex at Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma . The center was founded in 1985 as a civic art museum and reorganized in 1998 to focus on art, architecture, and design. Features includes a museum with changing exhibits. Collections include modern art, works on paper, furniture, textiles, and design. The center owns some significant pieces by Frank Lloyd Wright. Visitors can also tour

1197-608: The South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad , a shortline carrier of Watco . The Bartlesville Barflies barbershop quartet were the inaugural champions of SPEBSQSA . The city served as the setting for much of Terrence Malick 's 2012 film To the Wonder . Portions of the movie Killers of the Flower Moon were filmed here. Historic Hotels of America As of 2015, the program included over 260 members in 44 of

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1254-482: The U.S. National Park Service submitted the Price Tower, along with nine other Frank Lloyd Wright properties, to a tentative list for World Heritage Status. The 10 sites have been submitted as one site. The January 22, 2008, press release from the National Park Service website announcing the nominations states, "The preparation of a Tentative List is a necessary first step in the process of nominating

1311-560: The United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 21.1 square miles (54.6 km ), of which 21.1 square miles (54.6 km ) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km ) (0.09%) is water. The Caney River flows through Bartlesville, separating the downtown area from the east side. The river flooded in October 1986 as a result of unusually heavy rainfall. The city was split in half for several days, and

1368-557: The Wesleyan Church , enrolls about 1,100 students at the main campus in Bartlesville, satellite locations, and online campuses. About 700 students attend the Rogers State University branch campus downtown. Career and technical training is provided by Tri County Technology Center , which offers several programs for high-school and adult students along with short-term courses. In December 2018, Tri-County Tech

1425-416: The "OK Mozart" International Festival, and organized around the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , the festival featured performances of classical music, jazz, light opera, and more. World-renowned musicians who have performed at OK Mozart include Itzhak Perlman , Joyce Yang , Joshua Bell , and André Watts . Around 2018 the festival renamed itself OKM Music to signify that it was broadening its range beyond

1482-640: The 50 states and Puerto Rico , the U.S. Virgin Islands , and Washington, D.C. . By 2024, the program expanded to include 281 hotels. To be included in the program, a hotel must be at least 50 years old, designated by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark or listed on or eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places ; and recognized as having historic significance. The program generates funds for

1539-907: The Bartlesville Industrial Park and the Sunset Industrial Park. The Bartlesville Industrial Park landed a multi-million dollar lithium-ion battery recycling plant in September of 2023. Price Tower , designed by Frank Lloyd Wright , stands in downtown Bartlesville. It is Wright's only realized skyscraper , and one of only two vertically oriented Wright structures extant (the other is the S.C. Johnson Wax Research Tower in Racine, Wisconsin ). The nearby Bartlesville Community Center, designed by William Wesley Peters , one of Wright's students, hosts OKM Music, an annual week-long music event in June. Begun in 1985 as

1596-474: The H. C. Price Company, a local oil pipeline and chemical firm commissioned the Price Tower. It opened to the public in February 1956. Harold Price commissioned the Price Tower as a corporate headquarters for his Bartlesville company. His wife, Lou Patteson Price, and his two sons, Harold Jr. and Joe, comprised the building committee. The Prices were directed to Frank Lloyd Wright by architect Bruce Goff , who

1653-891: The National Trust through commissions on bookings done through their website, and from membership fees. Current and former members of the HHA program, by state, include: Former members: Former members: 2022 HHA still Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Formerly listed: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Former members: Charter members of Historic Hotels of America no longer with

1710-512: The Oklahoma Historical Society. His ranch and retreat about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Bartlesville is called Woolaroc (a portmanteau of the words woo ds , la kes , roc ks ). A working ranch of 3,700 acres (1,500 ha), Woolaroc houses a museum exhibiting Phillips's extensive collections of Native American, western, and fine art. It holds one of the most complete private collections of Colt firearms in

1767-546: The Oklahoma prairie where it continues to stand uncrowded by neighboring tall buildings. The floorplan of the Price Tower centers upon an inlaid cast bronze plaque, bearing the logo of the Price Company and marking the origin of a parallelogram grid upon which all exterior walls, interior partitions and doors, and built-in furniture are placed. The resulting design is a quadrant plan—one quadrant dedicated for double-height apartments, and three for offices. The materials for

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1824-434: The Price Tower are equally innovative for a mid-twentieth-century skyscraper: cast concrete walls, pigmented concrete floors, aluminum-trimmed windows and doors, and patinated embossed and distressed copper panels. The general geometric element is the equilateral triangle, and all lighting fixtures and ventilation grilles are based upon that form while the angled walls and built-in furniture are based on fractions or multiples of

1881-525: The Wesleyan Christian School, which is affiliated with First Wesleyan Church and Paths to Independence, a school for children and adults with autism. Some students also attend Tulsa-area private high schools. Bartlesville is served by two US Highways and one Oklahoma state highway: Intercity bus service is available through Jefferson Lines . Bartlesville Municipal Airport sits on the city's west side on US-60 in Osage County. It

1938-538: The area. Chevron Phillips also has an office here. Phillips Petroleum had a large presence in Bartlesville. A writer for the Tacoma (Wash.) News Tribune said, "I never quite understood why the town where I spent my high school years wasn't named Phillipsburg. Nearly everything else in town was named after the Phillips Petroleum company or its founder". The Bartlesville area has two industrial parks,

1995-553: The building. By August 2024, the owners owed more than $ 2 million and were selling off the tower's furniture. As a result, the tower was closed effective September 1, 2024, amid financial issues and a dispute with the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy regarding the sale of the furniture. By the end of September, some of the furniture had been sold. Ownership of the building was to be the subject of an online auction in early October 2024, with

2052-407: The city was 82.09% White , 3.20% African American , 7.18% Native American , 0.96% Asian , 0.02% Pacific Islander , 1.02% from other races , and 5.54% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino people of any race were 3.02% of the population. There were 14,565 households, out of which 30.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.9% were married couples living together, 9.7% had

2109-468: The climate of Bartlesville is considered humid subtropical ( Köppen Cfa ) with cool winters and hot summers, with the majority of precipitation falling in spring, between the months of April and June. Bartlesville lies in Tornado Alley , meaning that severe weather, including tornadoes, can occur. Severe weather occurs most often in the spring months, and occurs with much less frequency throughout

2166-491: The construction of the Price Tower, in the late 1920s in his design for an apartment complex of four cantilevered towers near St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in downtown New York City . Following the effects of the Great Depression , the project was shelved and adapted by Wright for the Price Company in 1952. Wright, therefore, plucked his "tree" out of the "crowded forest" of Manhattan skyscrapers and placed it on

2223-667: The downtown's center. The original Kress Building has been taken over by Bartlesville Monthly Magazine and restored. Downtown Bartlesville Inc., the Bartlesville Redevelopment Trust Authority, the Bartlesville Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Bartlesville Development Authority work in tandem to promote this thriving "Next City". Frank Phillips's former home is a museum maintained by

2280-489: The flood caused considerable property damage. The river broke its banks again in June 2007, cresting five feet below the 1986 level. The Pathfinder Parkway , a paved trail for walking, running, and cycling, runs alongside the Caney River. Bartlesville is familiar with both very hot conditions in the summer with a record high of 115 °F or 46.1 °C and with very cold conditions with a record of low of −28 °F or −33.3 °C. However, even with this record of extremes,

2337-548: The fully restored 1956 Price Company Executive Office and Corporate Apartment. A tribute to the Price Tower called The Classen , designed by the architectural firm Bozalis & Roloff and constructed in 1967, can be found in Oklahoma City 's Asian District, along Classen Boulevard, next door to the Buckminster Fuller -inspired Gold Dome , also designed by Bozalis & Roloff. Harold Jr. also commissioned

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2394-518: The immediate area, which was then called Bartles Town. In 1880, Bartles moved his Turkey Creek post office to this town. Bartles then provided the community with electricity, a telephone system and a water distribution system. Development of the present city began after William Johnstone and George B. Keeler opened a general store on the south side of the Caney River in 1884. The first newspaper, The Weekly Magnet , began publication in March 1895. The town

2451-486: The population was 79.0% White (76.1% non-Hispanic), 3.1% Black or African American, 8.7% Native American, 1.4% Asian (0.4% Indian, 0.3% Chinese, 0.2% Vietnamese), 2.1% reporting some other race, 5.7% reporting two or more races and 5.9% Hispanic or Latino (4.5% Mexican, 0.3% Spanish or Spaniard, 0.2% Puerto Rican). Oklahoma's first commercial oil well, the Nellie Johnstone, discovered oil on 15 April 1897 along

2508-501: The predominantly classical music it had featured for much of its 33-year history. The Community Center also hosts the concerts presented by the Bartlesville Community Concert Association. The city also hosts several annual festivals and shows, nearly all focused in the downtown. Sunfest is the first weekend of June. It includes an arts and crafts show, a music festival, a kids festival, and

2565-503: The regional offices of the Public Service Company of Oklahoma occupied a two-story wing of the tower, with a drive-through passageway separating the high and low structures. The Price Company occupied the upper floors, including a commissary on the sixteenth floor and a penthouse office suite for Harold Price Sr. and later his son Harold Jr. The H.C. Price Company sold Price Tower to Phillips Petroleum in 1981 following

2622-459: The rest of the year. The city lies within USDA plant hardiness zone 7a (0 to 5 °F/-17.8 to -15 °C). As of the census of 2000, there were 34,748 people, 14,565 households, and 9,831 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,646.4 inhabitants per square mile (635.7/km ). There were 16,091 housing units at an average density of 762.4 per square mile (294.4/km ). The racial makeup of

2679-654: The triangular module. The lobby contains two inscriptions by Walt Whitman . One is from the concluding stanza of Salut au Monde , and the other from Song of the Broad-Axe . The St. Mark's project was for apartment houses only; however, the Price Tower was designed as a multi-use building with the H. C. Price Company as the primary occupant, in addition to business offices, shops, and apartments. Seven double-height apartments were income-raising ventures. Tenants included lawyers, accountants, physicians, dentists, and insurance agents. A women's high-end dress shop, beauty salon, and

2736-474: The two independent companies, Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips. Both companies have retained some operations in Bartlesville, but they have moved their corporate headquarters to Houston . It is one of two places in Oklahoma where a Lenape Native American tribe lives, the other being Anadarko . Jacob Bartles, son-in-law of Delaware chief Charles Journeycake, moved from Wyandotte County, Kansas , to Indian Territory in 1873. He settled first at Silver Lake,

2793-464: The world. The property includes the Phillips family's lodge and mausoleum , along with a huge wildlife preserve with herds of American bison , elk , Texas longhorn cattle , water buffalo , zebra , and more than 20 other animal species. The Phillips Petroleum Company Museum shows the early days of petroleum production in Oklahoma and the evolution of Phillips Petroleum in that industry. Admission

2850-433: Was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.1 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 47,195, and the median income for a family was $ 56,432. The per capita income for the city was $ 27,417. About 17.3% of the population were below the poverty line . As of 2010 Bartlesville had a population of 35,750. The racial and ethnic composition of

2907-426: Was also home to Frank Phillips (November 28, 1873 – August 23, 1950) who along with his brother, Lee Eldas "L.E." Phillips Sr founded Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville in 1917 and made Bartlesville the headquarters of Phillips 66 . The new company began with assets of $ 3 million, 27 employees and leases throughout Oklahoma and Kansas but grew to become a multi-billion dollar oil company. Although Bartlesville

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2964-552: Was commissioned to design a museum expansion for Price Tower Arts Center—a project that was included in the 2006 retrospective exhibition of Hadid's work at the Guggenheim Museum , New York City. On March 29, 2007, the Price Tower was designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of the Interior, then one of only twenty-two such properties in the state of Oklahoma. In 2008,

3021-612: Was destroyed by fire in December 1996. Bartlesville is the home of multiple other Goff buildings, a home for the Price Pipe and Supply Family by Frank Lloyd Wright, and numerous homes by the Kansas City architect Edward Buehler Delk , most notably LaQuinta . The Conference Basketball tournament for The Great American Conference is hosted in Bartlesville. Oklahoma Wesleyan University , a private religious school affiliated with

3078-649: Was incorporated in Indian Territory in January 1897. The town was surveyed and platted in 1898, and eighty acres were offered to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad for a depot. The railroad, though its Kansas, Oklahoma Central and Southwestern Railway subsidiary, reached the town in 1899. The post office was moved from "North Bartlesville" in 1899. Bypassed by the railroad, Jacob Bartles moved his store to what became Dewey, Oklahoma . Bartlesville

3135-672: Was recognized for performance excellence as one of the recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Bartlesville Public Schools are in the Bartlesville Public School District (BPSD), also known as Independent School District 30. They include six elementary (PreK-5) sites, Central and Madison middle schools (6-8), and the high school (9-12). Within Washington County, almost all of Bartlesville

3192-447: Was the test site for the first experiment in pay cable television . The Bartlesville Telemovie System debuted with the film The Pajama Game , starring Doris Day, and aired it to an audience of 300 homes. The headline of the September 4, 1957, issue of Variety read, "First-Run Films Now at Home". However, after only nine months of operation, on Friday, June 6, 1958, Telemovie signed off forever. On May 6, 2024 , around 10:00PM CDT,

3249-566: Was then Dean of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma , where the Price sons had studied. Wright also designed an Arizona home for the senior Prices. 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 also to the origins of its design. The Price Tower is supported by

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