Editing Bartlesville, Oklahoma (section)

==Economy==
Oklahoma's first commercial oil well, the Nellie Johnstone, discovered oil on 15 April 1897 along a bank of the Caney River, near Bartlesville.<ref name="dh">{{cite book |last1=Hicks |first1=Doug |title=Nearly Forgotten, The Amazing Story of the Glenn Pool, Oklahoma's First World-Class Oil Field |date=2005 |publisher=Schnake Turnbo Frank, Inc. |isbn=9780977215904 |pages=18}}</ref>

Before its merger with [[Conoco]], [[Phillips Petroleum Company]] had its headquarters in Bartlesville.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/19980111004106/http://www.phillips66.com/who.html Who We Are]." [[Phillips Petroleum Company]]. January 11, 1998. Retrieved on January 16, 2010.</ref><ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20000420093041/http://phillips66.com/wmastrp.html Contact Page]." [[Phillips Petroleum Company]]. April 20, 2000. Retrieved on January 16, 2010.</ref> After [[ConocoPhillips]] formed, the combined company established a global systems and services office in Bartlesville.<ref name="History">"[http://www.conocophillips.com/EN/newsroom/news_releases/2005news/Pages/05-13-2005.aspx ConocoPhillips Announces Museum Plans For Ponca City and Bartlesville] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727094824/http://www.conocophillips.com/EN/newsroom/news_releases/2005news/Pages/05-13-2005.aspx |date=2011-07-27 }}." [[ConocoPhillips]]. May 13, 2005. Retrieved on January 22, 2010.</ref> [[ConocoPhillips]] spun most of its operations not related to exploration and production to form a new company, [[Phillips 66]], in 2012. The two companies combined employ or contract with more than 3,800 people in the area.<ref>"[http://www.bdcok.org/pages/largest_employers Largest Employers in the Area] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130808020112/http://bdcok.org/pages/largest_employers |date=2013-08-08 }}." Retrieved May 22, 2014.</ref> [[Chevron Phillips]] also has an office here.<ref>"[http://www.cpchem.com/en-us/company/Pages/faq.aspx CPChem FAQ Page]". [[Chevron Phillips Chemical]]. 2012. Retrieved on October 25, 2012</ref>

Phillips Petroleum had a large presence in Bartlesville. A writer for the Tacoma (Washington) ''[[The News Tribune|News Tribune]]'' said, "I never quite understood why the town where I spent my high school years wasn't named Phillipsburg. Nearly everything else in town was named after the Phillips Petroleum company or its founder".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=TNTB&d_place=TNTB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F083C9B96D17CBF&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=When Phillips Pulls Out of Bartlesville, You Know Nobody's Safe|newspaper=[[The News Tribune|News Tribune]]|location=Tacoma, Washington|date= December 5, 2001|access-date=February 3, 2010}}</ref>

The Bartlesville area has two industrial parks, the Bartlesville Industrial Park and the Sunset Industrial Park.<ref>{{cite web|url=  https://www.tradeandindustrydev.com/industry/glimpse-americas-top-sites-business-location-2013-7859 |title=A Glimpse into America's Top Sites for Business Location in 2013|publisher=Trade & Industry Development, May 21, 2013|accessdate=October 1, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://pdf.locationone.com/property/site/59eaba35bec80e09b4bbf7c8/5bb52feaeb5f2f2b126ed5ca?format=pdf |title=Sunset Industrial Park|publisher=LocationOne|accessdate=October 1, 2023}}</ref>  The Bartlesville Industrial Park landed a multi-million dollar lithium-ion battery recycling plant in September 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.fox23.com/news/multi-million-dollar-battery-recycling-plant-moving-to-bartlesville/article_bbd9132c-572a-11ee-a182-eb6395f2de3f.html |title= Multi-million dollar battery recycling plant moving to Bartlesville|date= September 19, 2023|publisher=Fox 23 News, September 19, 2023|accessdate=October 1, 2023}}</ref>

=== Tourism ===
[[File:Price tower.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Price Tower]], located downtown, was designed by [[Frank Lloyd Wright]].]]
[[File:Frank and Jane Phillips House.JPG|thumb|right|Frank and Jane Phillips house]]

[[Price Tower]], designed by [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], stands in downtown Bartlesville. It is Wright's only realized [[skyscraper]], and one of only two vertically oriented Wright structures extant (the other is the [[S.C. Johnson Wax Research Tower]] in [[Racine, Wisconsin]]).

The nearby Bartlesville Community Center, designed by [[William Wesley Peters]], one of Wright's students, hosts OKM Music, an annual week-long music event in June.<ref>[http://www.okmozart.com/ OKM Website Retrieved on March 28 2010]</ref> Begun in 1985 as the "OK Mozart" International Festival, and organized around the music of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], the festival featured performances of classical music, jazz, light opera, and more. World-renowned musicians who have performed at OK Mozart include [[Itzhak Perlman]], [[Joyce Yang]], [[Joshua Bell]], and [[André Watts]]. Around 2018 the festival renamed itself OKM Music to signify that it was broadening its range beyond the predominantly classical music it had featured for much of its 33-year history.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.tulsaworld.com/entertainment/arts-scene-okm-music-debuts-summerstage-dances/article_1895f89f-5bcc-5c96-8f15-cefbc763987a.html | title=Arts Scene: OKM Music debuts, Summerstage dances | date=May 31, 2018 |publisher=James D. Watts, Tulsa World, May 31, 2018|access-date=October 26, 2019}}</ref> The Community Center also hosts the concerts presented by the Bartlesville Community Concert Association.<ref>[http://bccamusic.org/ Bartlesville Community Concert Association]. Retrieved September 16, 2013]</ref>

The city also hosts several annual festivals and shows, nearly all focused in the downtown.<ref name="Downtown Bartlesville Inc">Downtown Bartlesville Inc.</ref> Sunfest<ref>[http://bartlesvillesunfest.org/ Sunfest Website]. Retrieved March 28, 2010.</ref> is the first weekend of June. It includes an arts and crafts show, a music festival, a kids festival, and a classic cars show. A second classic air show and festival is held in the fall. An Oklahoma Indian Summer Festival<ref>[http://www.okindiansummer.org/ Indian Summer Website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009070035/http://okindiansummer.org/ |date=2010-10-09 }}. Retrieved March 28, 2010.</ref> is held at the Community Center downtown each fall.

Bartlesville's downtown revitalization efforts are in full swing, with many blocks of the National Register Historic District, and the catalyst project, the once burned out May Brothers and 1904 Buildings, coming to completion at the downtown's center. The original Kress Building has been taken over by [[Bartlesville Monthly Magazine]] and restored. Downtown Bartlesville Inc., the Bartlesville Redevelopment Trust Authority, the Bartlesville Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Bartlesville Development Authority work in tandem to promote this thriving "Next City".<ref>Angelou Economics Study, new, and Downtown Bartlesville, Inc.</ref>

Frank Phillips's former home is a museum maintained by the Oklahoma Historical Society. His ranch and retreat about {{convert|10|mi|km}} southwest of Bartlesville is called [[Woolaroc]] (a [[portmanteau]] of the words '''''woo'''ds'', '''''la'''kes'', '''''roc'''ks''). A working ranch of {{convert|3,700|acre}}, Woolaroc houses a museum exhibiting Phillips's extensive collections of Native American, western, and fine art. It holds one of the most complete private collections of [[Colt's Manufacturing Company|Colt]] [[firearms]] in the world. The property includes the Phillips family's lodge and [[mausoleum]], along with a huge wildlife preserve with herds of [[American bison]], [[elk]], [[Texas longhorn (cattle)|Texas longhorn cattle]], [[Bubalus bubalis|water buffalo]], [[zebra]], and more than 20 other animal species.

The Phillips Petroleum Company Museum shows the early days of petroleum production in Oklahoma and the evolution of Phillips Petroleum in that industry.<ref name=PhillipsMuseum>{{cite web|url= https://www.travelok.com/listings/view.profile/id.5875 |title= Phillips Petroleum Company Museum|publisher=TravelOK.com|accessdate=August 6, 2021}}</ref> Admission is free.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.phillips66museum.com |title=Homepage|publisher= Phillips Petroleum Company Museum|accessdate=August 6, 2021}}</ref>

A Wall of Honor is inside Washington Park Mall, with names of service members listed on panels beside cabinets that display military artifacts, photos, story boards, [[Prisoner of war|POW]]/[[Missing in action|MIA]] listings, and other exhibits. A special display honors [[Lance Corporal]] Thomas A. Blair, Oklahoma's first casualty during the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|Iraq War]].

[[Bruce Goff]] designed ''Shin'enKan'' ("The House of the Far Away Heart") in 1956. Built for Joe D. Price as his house and studio, it was destroyed by fire in December 1996. Bartlesville is the home of multiple other Goff buildings, a home for the Price Pipe and Supply Family by Frank Lloyd Wright, and numerous homes by the Kansas City architect [[Edward Buehler Delk]],<ref>Bartlesville Area History Museum.</ref> most notably [[LaQuinta]]. The Conference Basketball tournament for The Great American Conference is hosted in Bartlesville.