Fort Worth architect Hedrick produced the most monumental building in Big Spring. The Veterans Administration Hospital rises in stages to eight stories in a symmetrical, setback composition sited to face the intersection of W. Marcy Drive and Gregg Street with a maximum of size and modernist authority.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "West Texas Veterans Administration Health Care System (Veterans Administration Hospital)", [Big Spring, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SL17.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 397-397.
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