Price Tower named National Historic Landmark

[MichaelC]

From KTUL

quote:Bartlesville (AP) - The Price Tower, a 19-story structure in Bartlesville designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is designated today by U-S Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne as a National Historic Landmark.

Fewer than 25-hundred historic places in the U-S 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 today, 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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The Price Tower is the only skyscraper designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that was ever actually constructed.  It's great to see this building get the recognition it deserves.