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This complex was designed for the Fresno City Unified School District; the Sunshine School for the Cerebral Palsied received an Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects, 1950 and 1952 and was praised for its clever use of sunshades to keep the building cool; G.Z. Brown and Mark DeKay, authors of Sun, Wind and Light, observed of the Sunshine School: "Horn & Mortland used a series of louvers to form the overhang in their Sunshine School in Fresno, California. The louvers are tightly spaced near the building to shade the high sun and loosely spaced farther away from the building to shade the low sun. In addition to admitting diffuse radiation, the open overhang also allows the circulation of air within the shading device itself, reducing heat transfers from it to the interior spaces." (See G. Z. Brown and Mark DeKay, Sun, Wind and Light, [New York: John Wiley and Sons, Incorporated, 2001], 260.)

Stage 1 was finished in c. 1949; Stage 2 in c. 1951;

PCAD id: 5721