Lauck had moved his practice back to Kansas City by the time he designed this grand house for Katie L. Avis and William Fred Weeks. Lauck used red vitrified brick, limestone classical detailing, and green ceramic shingle tiles to convey a country house image for the Weeks, particularly appropriate since their two-story 10,000-square-foot Georgian Revival house was built on twelve acres of what was then the far western outskirts of Wichita Falls. An inset entrance loggia, centered on a split pediment supported on Tuscan columns, is symmetrically framed by the building’s end wings. The deep eaves of the hipped roofs are supported on scrolled brackets and provide a strong horizontal, sheltering appearance. The tall porte-cochere on the house’s north side features a fine Serliana motif in limestone, with Ionic columns.
Weeks made fortunes in the North Central Texas oil boom as a trial and criminal lawyer and in real estate development. He lost his fortune in 1931 and sold the house, which was put to commercial use in 1949. In 1973 owner David Hirschli restored the Weeks House, which is now bordered by two-story apartment buildings on three sides and U.S. 82/277 on the other. Expressing boomtown extravagance and fortunes won and lost, the Weeks House was one of several exceptionally grand houses built competitively by Wichita Falls entrepreneurs.