This long, one-story, red brick building with stepped rooflines has bands of windows emphasizing its modernist horizontality. The trustees for the donors whose bequest funded construction of the library were English immigrants associated with the White Deer Land Company who had settled in Pampa. Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston, founder of the Cabot Corporation, which operated a carbon black plant in Pampa, funded the acquisition of books.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Lovett Memorial Library", [Pampa, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-TP23.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 360-360.
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