Built as the Brownfield Savings and Loan Association and occupied by the city in 1990, this building is a wonderful combination of 1950s mannerisms, including horizontally stratified fieldstone walls and a folded-plate canopy. The main banking room, now used by the utility department, is illuminated by a clerestory window and has exposed fieldstone and scored wooden paneling. The influence of Frank Lloyd Wright is apparent.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Brownfield City Hall (Brownfield Savings and Loan Association)", [Brownfield, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-PP15.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 375-375.
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