The Lubbock architects paid tribute to Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer’s spiraling chapel of the Palácio da Alvorada (1958) in Brasília in their design executed in brown brick. The circular chapel is formed of two offset halves with stained glass in the vertical slots between the halves. The parapets gently curve upward, with one half dramatically sweeping up to form a planar campanile and cross.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "First Presbyterian Church", [Plainview, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-PP10.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 373-373.
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