Paradise Valley, Ariz.:
"Harold Price, Sr. (1888-1962). Price was one of Wright's most important clients. In 1952 he visited Wright at Taliesin to discuss the building of a modest multi-story building to serve as offices for his international pipeline construction firm, the H. C. Price Company. When he left, Wright had been engaged to build the Price Tower, a nineteen-floor mixed residential, retail and office tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Wright also designed homes for the Price children.

Description: The 4,781 square foot house was executed in concrete block with a light steel frame. The elongated building stretches the length of a football field along a hill east of Tatum Road. It has 10 rooms arranged in 4 areas which can each be closed off from the rest of the house. Each of the 5 master bedrooms and 2 servant's bedrooms have their own baths. Bedroom wings on the east and west, and the living room and kitchen surround an open-air atrium at the center of the building. The roof of the atrium floats two feet above the walls on narrow steel pylons atop massive massive concrete block columns which end short of the ceiling and taper toward the floor. A skylight illuminates a fountain in the center of the atrium.

Subsequent owner: In 1964 the Price estate sold the home to Sam Shoen when he moved the headquarters of U-Haul, the company which he founded and ran, to Phoenix from Portland, OR. At that time there were 11 little Shoens ranging from 2 to 23 years in age. There were destined to be 12 Shoen children in corporate America's most dysfunctional family."
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