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Price Tower

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Price Tower

... that Frank Lloyd Wright designed a skyscraper in a small city in Oklahoma? Source: Singrey, Abigail (August 16, 2024). "Frank Lloyd Wright's Only Skyscraper Sold for $10 in 2023 and Has Been Embroiled in Controversy Ever Since". Architectural Digest.
- ALT1: ... that Frank Lloyd Wright designed an Oklahoma skyscraper based on a church tower, which itself was loosely based on a windmill? Source: "The H. C. Price Tower" (PDF). Architectural Record. Vol. 119, no. 2. February 1956. p. 158.
- ALT2: ... that the Price Tower in Oklahoma was completed nearly three decades after it was proposed in New York? Source: Toker, Franklin (2003). Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 161.
- ALT3: ... that the Price Tower's developer wanted a building with two or three floors, but he got nineteen? Source: Multiple; see article
- ALT4: ... that the Price Tower has no freight elevator because its architect thought it was redundant? Source: Austerman, Lisa (December 6, 1998). "Price Tower, Phillips Home Exemplify Bartlesville History". The Daily Oklahoman.
- ALT5: ... that the Price Tower may have been abandoned partly because it did not have enough staircases? Source: McCarter, Robert (1997). Frank Lloyd Wright. London: Phaidon Press. p. 198.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tyler Oliveira
- Comment: Thanks to Tamzin for suggesting the ideas for the first two hooks. The article previously appeared on the Main Page in 2004; DYK renominations are now allowed after five years per WP:DYKNEW. (On a lighter note, somehow even this building managed to have a connection to NYC...)

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Epicgenius (talk) 23:05, 19 December 2024 (UTC).