The Price Tower is 19 stories tall.
Frank Lloyd Wright designed the tower for Harold C. Price Sr., whose pipeline-construction company wanted a headquarters in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Wright initially imagined a much taller structure, while Price preferred a low-rise building. Their negotiations eventually produced a compromise of nineteen floors.
Construction began in 1953, and the final story was completed in February 1955. The tower officially opened in February 1956. Its distinctive design uses a central, pinwheel-shaped structural core, with reinforced-concrete floors cantilevered outward from it.
The number can be confused with the building’s height: the Price Tower rises about 221 feet, or 67 meters, including its antenna spire. It is also notable as one of Wright’s few skyscraper designs and one of the early American high-rises planned from the start to combine offices and apartments.