These Walls: Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma

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To some architects and engineers, Bartlesville's Price Tower Arts Center stands alone as the most valuable building in Oklahoma - and perhaps the region.

"I'll tell you how we can justify that," said Executive Director Timothy Boruff, settled in his office inside the only realized skyscraper design by Frank Lloyd Wright. "What's significant is that it is in Bartlesville."

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These Walls: Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Finished by Oklahoma City's Culwell Construction Co. in 1956 at a cost of $2.2 million ($17.5 million adjusted for today's dollars), the high-rise employed then-revolutionary cantilever techniques long ...

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