In one of the first houses built in the Morningside Park subdivision, Voelcker and Dixon incorporated soft orange brick, red barrel-tile hipped roofs, and bracketed soffits in this classic Mediterranean villa–styled house. The street front emphasizes the formal entrance, a triple-arched loggia of Ionic columns and arches in white terra-cotta that contrasts with the warm-toned brick.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Peyton F. Gwinn House", [Wichita Falls, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-AQ21.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 323-323.
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