The six Edison School structures, initially designed as cubical units connected by breezeways, are vaguely Italianate. Gathered around a handsome, twin-towered Italian Villa Style main building, this complex of one-story, hip-roofed structures in blond brick was based on the concept of the “Pueblo unit schoolhouse,” developed by school board member Dr. Richard W.
Corwin. In a typical Progressive-era experiment with improving public buildings, Dr. Corwin specified high windows on three sides of each detached unit, allowing good ventilation and diffuse lighting to eliminate “objectionable reflections or cross-lights.”