Part of the Bartlesville skyline is now up for sale.

 

 The Frank-Lloyd-Wright-designed Price Tower in downtown Bartlesville has been placed on an online auction site with a starting bid of $600,000.

 

The 19-story skyscraper was posted on the auction website Ten-X.com yesterday afternoon. The auction is scheduled to officially begin October 7 and run through October 9.

 

Cynthia Blanchard of Copper Tree, LLC, purchased the Price Tower in 2023 from the nonprofit Price Tower Arts Center. She announced the auction on Tuesday — after facing scrutiny with mounting debt, selling irreplaceable artifacts, laying off staff, providing notice to tenants to find other arrangements and closing the doors to the public.