The crisp, red brick forms of the church, with its simple gabled roof and arched windows, could be labeled as Georgian but for the upper stage of the corner tower that erupts with metal shingle-clad pilasters, crenellations, and a spire. A small Palladian window floats on the front gable above the tall pointed-arched window. The church was the first brick building in Pecos and the second structure for a congregation founded in 1881.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "First Christian Church", [Pecos, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MT46.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 470-470.
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