Frank Lloyd Wright artifacts from Bartlesville’s Price Tower recovered for future public display

Eleven original artifacts designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for Bartlesville’s Price Tower have been recovered and will eventually return to public display.

The it acquired the items to prevent them from being permanently lost to private collectors. The purchase is an unusual move for the nonprofit, which rarely buys architectural artifacts.

The pieces were sold without permission in spring 2024 despite being protected under the Conservancy’s preservation easement. The newly recovered artifacts include:

The building’s original lobby directory board

An armchair

Three copper tables

Two stools

Four embossed copper panels

Barbara Gordon, the Conservancy’s executive director, said the decision to buy the pieces was made to preserve them as part of Price Tower’s history rather tha