
Located on what was then Highway 5 to Fort Worth, the Clarendon Motor Company building was an early indication of the thriving motor trade along this route. The double-height structure was the auto showroom, and the one-story wings to the north and west accommodated the parts and service departments of the dealership. Constructed of plastered masonry with Alamoesque gables in the roof parapets and brick and tile trim, the dealership is overtly, if only superficially, California Mission in style. Two timber and tile-roofed pump islands at the curb have been re-created in the building’s adaptation to professional office space for KLM Inc. by M. R. Newberry of Amarillo.