The spacious, one-story house that Los Angeles designer Cliff May designed for oilman David J. Stone and his family possesses none of the expansiveness associated with May’s California houses because he designed it to shelter the family from the extremes of the South Plains climate; thus the house focuses inward to protect against wind and dust storms. Exterior space is encapsulated in a central patio, landscaped by Thomas Church of San Francisco. May included the Stone House in his 1958 publication, Western Ranch Houses by Cliff May.
Mid-twentieth-century architects were more apt than their early-twentieth-century eclectic predecessors to design for the exigencies of Lubbock’s climate, as is evident in the one-story, flat-roofed, modern house (1963) that architect and professor Nolan E. Barrick designed for his family at 4521 22nd Street. Barrick surrounded the glass-walled house with high garden walls to fortify it against wind, sun, and dust.