An oil pipeline company hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design a skyscraper. The architect used his unrealized 1925 proposal for a residential building in New York City. The Price Tower has 19 floors. The exterior walls are decorative panels covered with patinated copper. Cast concrete walls and aluminum finished windows and doors were very innovative materials in 1956 when the building was constructed. Originally it was the company's headquarters, with shops and a hairdressing salon on the ground floor and offices on the upper level. Currently, the building houses a hotel, bar and a small museum. The office floors were divided into small guest rooms, the furniture is inspired by Wright's designs.
The Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma is one of only two Wright’s high-rise structures. The other is the fourteen-story Johnson Wax Tower in Wisconsin.
