Every prosperous oil town needed a “petroleum building” where land speculators and oil boomers as well as local professionals could lease office space. This five-story, reinforced concrete structure, faced in brick and cream-colored glazed terra-cotta, is modestly modern with brick pilasters between the windows emphasizing height. The building is named for two ranchers who became wealthy from oil. Architect Kaufman maintained an office on the top floor.
To the west at 408 W. Kingsmill Avenue stands Pampa’s tallest building, the six-story Hughes Building (1951, Cantrell and Company), a rationalist structure of square windows punched in white gridded wall planes faced with square terra-cotta tiles. Pampa architect B. Royall Cantrell also designed the four-story, curtain-walled Hughes Building Annex (1962) facing N. Somerville Street.