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Price Tower

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Price Tower stands in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, completed in 1956 to a design by Frank Lloyd Wright and remains the only skyscraper Wright ever saw built. The nineteen-story tower grows from a central reinforced concrete core, from which each floor cantilevers outward independently in a structural arrangement Wright compared to the branching of a tree, an approach he had first developed on paper decades earlier for an unbuilt New York apartment tower. Clad in copper and glass, the building mixes office space with residential apartments on a rotated, four-pointed floor plan, giving each unit an unusual triangular geometry and views in multiple directions. Commissioned by the Price family, owners of a local pipeline construction company, the tower remains one of the few tall buildings Wright completed and is preserved today as a National Historic Landmark.

Facts
Building Type
Multi-use tower (offices and apartments) 1
Location
510 S. Dewey Avenue, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States 1
Completed Year
1956 2
Height (m)
67 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Tower 1
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Tower, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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1. Price Tower (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, Type
    Multi-use
  • Infobox, Address
    510 S. Dewey Avenue, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States
  • Infobox, Completed
    Completed 1956
  • Infobox, Height
    221 ft (67 m)
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Price Tower stands in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, completed in 1956 to a design by Frank Lloyd Wright and remains the only skyscraper Wright ever saw built. The nineteen-story tower grows from a central reinforced concrete core, from which each floor cantilevers outward independently in a structural arrangement Wright compared to the branching of a tree, an approach he had first developed on paper decades earlier for an unbuilt New York apartment tower. Clad in copper and glass, the building mixes office space with residential apartments on a rotated, four-pointed floor plan, giving each unit an unusual triangular geometry and views in multiple directions. Commissioned by the Price family, owners of a local pipeline construction company, the tower remains one of the few tall buildings Wright completed and is preserved today as a National Historic Landmark.
  • In Style: Modernist Architecture, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Modernist architecture in Oklahoma
  • Uses Element: Copper, Wikipedia lead
    The facade includes embossed copper spandrels and louvers, tinted glass windows, and poured stucco surfaces.
  • Uses Element: Glass, Wikipedia lead
    The facade includes embossed copper spandrels and louvers, tinted glass windows, and poured stucco surfaces.
  • Uses Element: Stucco, Wikipedia lead
    The facade includes embossed copper spandrels and louvers, tinted glass windows, and poured stucco surfaces.
  • Uses Element: Reinforced Concrete, Wikipedia lead
    The facade includes embossed copper spandrels and louvers, tinted glass windows, and poured stucco surfaces.
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2. Wikidata: Price Tower
  • Wikidata Q4260261, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q4260261, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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