Price Tower

Unlike many Wright buildings that I've enjoyed searching out over the years, the Price Tower stands out in the landscape and is easy to find. It ranks high on my list of favorite Wright buildings next toFallingwater, Taliesin East and Taliesin West.

I may write more later, but I wanted to get the photographs posted.

See the official website for the Price Tower for additional information.

There is a book available on the Price Tower: Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan and the Skyscraper

Bartlesville Community Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright's apprentice Wesley Peters, is across the steet from the Price Tower.

See below for information about Bruce Goff, a well known organic-style architect with several buildings in Bartlesville and elsewhere.

All photographs were taken in the late afternoon.

The view from across the street with the sun in the background.

The entryway to the building. It houses a museum as well as a hotel.

Looking up the building. The fire escape is on the left side of the photograph.

The antenna on top of the building.

Some details as viewed from the ground.

The supports for the parking carport in front of the building.
These reminded me of the supports that I saw at Florida Southern College.

This is the view from the Bartlesville Community Center.

The Walt Whitman inscription inside the building.

Bruce Goff

The Price Tower has the Shin'En Kan Gate by Bruce Goff on display.

There is more information about the exhibit at the Price Tower website page

If you'd like to learn more about Bruce Goff the following links may be useful:

A Film of Bruce Goff Buildings
Bruce Goff at greatbuildings.com
Article at Architecture Week
Friends of Kebyar
Bruce Goff Castle (Bed and Breakfast in Southern Illinois)

There is a booklet available (~ $18) from the Price Tower Arts Center Free Thought: The Art and Architecture of Bruce Goff that includes a listing and map of Bruce Goff designed homes in the Bartlesville area. If you happen to be touring and take photographs I would welcome the chance to start a Bruce Goff gallery.