Bartlesville tower designed by Wright named as historic landmark BARTLESVILLE, OKLA. (KOSU) - The Price Tower, a 19-story structure
in Bartlesville designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, was designated yesterday by US Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne as a National Historic Landmark.
Fewer than 2,500 historic places in the US bear the National Historic Landmark designation, the highest such recognition accorded by the federal government to historic properties.
The Price Tower will be the 20th National Historic Landmark in Oklahoma. Before yesterday, the most recent Oklahoma site added to the list had been the University of Oklahoma's Bizzell Library in
Norman in January 2001.
Scott Perkins, the curator of collections and exhibitions at Price Tower Art Center, says he had worked on the application for historic designation since January 2006.
Perkins says the recognition means that the building, built in 1956, now is guaranteed its rightful place in American
architectural history.

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