If you are traveling within five hours drive of  the area of North Oklahoma, I would recommend a special trip to a very “special place.”  Bartlesville has something for all the family.  It may be that you want to stay in a “hotel” built by Frank Lloyd Wright – well, the Price Tower is just that place!   Frank Lloyd Wright built the Price Tower at the request of  the H. C. Price Company and the 221 foot, nineteen story building, is Wright’s tallest structure.  The building is listed with the National Register of Historic Places as one of the seventeen most significant examples of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture.  www.pricetower.org.

Within the tower is the Inn at Price Tower, the Copper Restaurant and bar, and the Price Tower Arts Center.  There are 21 rooms appointed in luxury style and a “step into Frank Lloyd Wright’s design period."  Each room has modern office hookups for Internet access, heated bathroom floors, refrigerator, and the usual necessities.  The rooms are large and spacious – in keeping with Wright’s “open space concepts.”  Continental breakfast is

complimentary each morning for guest.  

A room at the Inn entitles one to tours of the building and access to the Arts Center. 

Located at 510 Dewey Avenue, Phone  918 336 1000

pricetower.org 

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(Related story for the Hotel Phillips, another choice hotel in the downtown area;

PhotoandTravel.com/b&bnov.html)  Look in index for B & B this month!

One of the very unique and best history museums I have ever visited in a town this size is the Bartlesville Area History Museum, found at 401 S. Johnstone Avenue.  http://www.bartlesvillehistory.com/   It is history of Oklahoma, oil, and Indians!  A “don’t miss place for sure!”  Ph 918 338 4290

For a special “lunch stop” I recommend Ashley Grace Coffee.  You won’t be disappointed in the gourmet sandwiches, great coffee and outstanding desserts.  Located at 2230 SE Washington Blvd.  Phone 918 335 5400.  To look at a sample menu, etc. http://www.agcoffee.com/   Owners, Steve and Dalene Fisher will make your visit “special” if you let them know you read about them at photoandtravel.com.  This is really worth the drive - I promise.

A calendar of events for Bartlesville looks like “big city” activity!  It is, but in a small town atmosphere.  Also, prices are “small town prices.”  Your family vacation dollar will certainly go further when in Bartlesville!  Internet site  www.VisitBartlesville.com  has the schedule of events.

Nearby Dewey, Oklahoma, just west of Highway 75, has the Tom Mix Museum (King of the Cowboys),  Dewey Hotel Museum, Prairie Song, antique stores and a real old-time-soda- fountain you will want to stop by for a refreshing drink (Linger Longer Antiques). 

Prairie Song is located just 5 ½ miles east of Dewey on Durham Street.  prsong@aol.com

Is the E-mail and www.prairiesong.net will take you to the Internet site.  Escorted tours (by one very lovely and beautiful Naughty Nelle – if you are lucky), are available Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.    

Prairie Song is a frontier village built in the mind of Kenneth Tate, building by building, and then physically build by his own hands one building at a time, with amazing craftsmanship.  Here is a chance to see life from days of early Oklahoma complete with longhorn cattle crazing on the bluestem prairie.  There is catering available to visitors if arranged in advance. 

This is a favorite place for tour busses, anniversaries, weddings, reunions, and private parties.

There is a log schoolhouse, chapel, cowboy line shack, cabin home, trading post, school marm’s house, post office, saloon complete with (Naughty Nelle’s red lighted windows in the second floor) brothel upstairs, depot, jailhouse, smokehouse, dance hall, mule barn, blacksmith shop, windmill,  covered bridge, water tower, and lots, lots more to see. 

Woolaroc Lodge and Wildlife Preserve is the country estate of oil baron Frank Phillips.  Here Presidents, Indians, movie stars, outlaws, lawman, and the rich and famous came to parties of Frank Phillips (founder of Phillips 66).  One will see their pictures covering the walls of the main lodge.  There is an exotic  3,700 acre wildlife preserve and a museum with over 55,000 pieces that rivals any large city museum.   

You won’t be disappointed withtaking time to make this drive into a ½ day of wonderment.  http://www.woolaroc.org/

Directions:  PO Box 1647, 74005 • 12 miles SW on Hwy 123 from US 60
918-336-0307 • 800-636-0307 • Fax 918-336-0084

The  Frank Phillips Home, completed in 1909 is a display of the rich and famous of yesteryear.  This was his “in town” place where the Phillips family lived in Bartlesville.   The tour is an excellent opportunity to see how the opulent lifestyle of oilmen of the early 1900’s lived.  1107 Cherokee Avenue, 74003
918-336-2491 • Fax 918-336-3529

Hours
Wednesday – Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.*;
Sunday 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.*
*Last admittance each day at 4:20 p.m.
Closed holidays

Admission
Donation of $3.00 adults (18+);
$1.00 children (6-17) appreciated

Happy Traveling