This tall, one-story orange brick service station took advantage of access from both streets at its prominent corner site. The urban service station model is here given an unusually rich architectural treatment with wide, segmental arches over the entrance drives, a rope stringcourse, and a coping all in color-matched terra-cotta. The building to the west, with a matching coping, has large display windows for an auto sales dealership.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Michie Building", [Childress, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-PH3.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 363-363.
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