Architect?s famous Price Tower in Oklahoma may get affordable apartments thanks to federal grant Living in a Frank Lloyd Wright home is a rare privilege for fans of the legendary architect. But a federal grant in Oklahoma may create an even more unique opportunity to live within a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed apartment.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is exploring the option of creating affordable apartments within Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Frank Lloyd Wright?s first skyscraper, according to the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise.
According to the article, the Bartlesville Redevelopment Trust Authority (BRTA) plans to use a $500,000 Hope VI Main Street grant to rehabilitate four apartments in the building to create affordable housing, and the organization recently submitted plans for the conversion to HUD. ?The project will take three of the original two-level apartments on six floors and rehabilitate them into new rental apartments,? Chris Wilson, executive director of BRTA, told the Examiner-Enterprise. ?They will be restored in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright.?
Based on a Wright blueprint for a Manhattan apartment building first sketched in the 1920s, the Price Tower is an asymmetrical, 19-story building Wright described as ?the tree that escaped the crowded forest.? Opened in 1956, it was commissioned by Harold Price, owner of a local oil and chemical company. Currently, the building is split between a hotel and restaurant, the Inn...