During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) hired many local architects, contractors and workers to construct public works projects in Miami. The 345-unit low rent housing project Edison Courts, completed in 1941 and designed by the firm of Paist and Stewart with associate architects Robert Law Weed, Vladimir Virrick and E.L. Robertson, provided public housing for white people. It was similar in scale and design to the Liberty Square project, opened in 1937 and designed by the same firm.
During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) employed numerous local architects, contractors, and workers to construct public works projects in Miami. The Edison Courts housing project, a 345-unit low-cost housing development completed in 1941 and designed by Paist and Stewart with associate architects Robert Law Weed, Vladimir Virrick, and E.L. Robertson, was built for white people. It mirrored the Liberty Square project, opened in 1937 and also designed by the same firm.