The Price Tower Arts Center is a 19 story structure of glass and copper, dubbed the "tree that escaped the crowded forest", is in Bartlesville, north of Tulsa. Closer up you can identify the well-known features of a FL Wright design, such as corner windows, straight lines, references to nature, and on this building the sculpted copper's rich green patina, giving it the tree like identity. The town is the home of Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips 66 Petroleum Company. Oklahoma's first oil well was drilled in 1897 in what is now Johnstone Park. This small city boasts other interesting architecture as well as a charming downtown, with it's collection of painted and decorated bison.
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