After organizing in 1882, the congregation built its first church in 1883 at 9th and Indiana streets. This, the congregation’s fourth church, was built in two stages. Lemmon’s gridded geometry of the low-pitched gabled nave facade and the tall, freestanding, square tower bear a likeness to Eliel Saarinen’s First Christian Church of 1942 in Columbus, Indiana.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "First Presbyterian Church", [Wichita Falls, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-AQ27.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 324-324.
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