Wright Chat

I have a 'blog' or journal entry on www.wrightinracine.com about the roles of the two towers in Wright's career. I have read some assertions that forget that the Johnson Research Tower even exists, much less predates the Price Tower. I look forward to generating more discussion about this on the site.



I have just been lent some wonderful postcards of the former Lake Geneva Inn, and hope to post them within a week, rueing that the Conservancy did not exist in time to save the hotel. Photos of the condos that replaced the hotel are on the previous blog.

Mark Hertzberg

I was able to visit the Price Tower in September 2001, before it had been converted into today's "Inn at Price Tower". The tower rooms were largely empty, but the building still made a powerful impression. Perhaps the most interesting feature was the tiny triangular elevator cabs. One person with two bags might barely fit in!



I tried to go in and take pictures of the Bartlesville Community Center across the street, designed by former Wright apprentice William Wesley Peters, but the security guard told me that no one was being allowed in because of security concerns two weeks after 9/11. I never realized that Bartlesville was such a major terrorist target (I live in Washington, DC).



I'm eager to go back and stay in the Inn and see how plans are coming along for Zaha Habib's adjacent arts center.

swmdal wrote:I'm eager to go back and stay in the Inn and see how plans are coming along for Zaha Habib's adjacent arts center.

Zaha Hadid

As a former resident of Tulsa, I also had the chance to visit the Price Tower in Bartlesville a few years back. Folks in good ole Bartleville don't seem to care much about there FLW buildings. Or so it seemed to me at the time. I did hear that the Price tower was finally restored, and has been cleaned up. Apparently someone moved into town that knew what they had....



PDean

Dallas TX.