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Pecos County Safety Rest Area

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2018, Richter Architects. IH-10, 26 miles west of Fort Stockton.

A pair of long, narrow, flat-roofed blocks, set slightly askew with each other, define a glazed lobby roofed with a thin folded plane. The local yellow limestone is dry laid in irregular courses that look like the highway cuts in the mesas in this part of the state and the jagged, folded roof hints at the industrial landscape of fractal petroleum production and the profile of mountains in the distance. The landscaping of dry washes reflects the long history of this area as a watering stop for Comanche, cavalry, and settler travelers.

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Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Gerald Moorhead et al., "Pecos County Safety Rest Area", [Fort Stockton, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-FV36.

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Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 453-453.

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