The three-story tall, flat, white stucco facade, subtly scored with horizontal and diagonal lines, replaced a 1926 theater that burned in 1934 and again in 1935. Vertical red and white lines terminate at a cornice of dentil-like red and white shapes. The volunteer group Childress Theater Company began restoration in 2010 with the facade, marquee, and banner sign.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Palace Theater", [Childress, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-PH6.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 363-364.
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