Cedarbrook Elementary School is situated on a 10-acre site in a residential suburb of the City of Danville. Constructed in 1962-63 in the International Style, the one-story building features horizontal massing, a flat roof, and brick veneer walls. Banks of aluminum windows are accented with porcelain enamel panels and structural glazed tile.  A one-story south wing addition in 1969 formed the school’s overall U-shaped configuration. The wing was expanded in the mid-1980s with a gymnasium addition. Cedarbrook Elementary School was renamed W. Townes Lea Elementary School in 1983, in honor of a former Danville school superintendent. The school is significant for its International Style architecture and its reflection of the interface between changing trends in Progressive education philosophy and the evolution of the Modern architectural movement. Additionally, its design demonstrates how new building materials and technologies were employed to meet the demand for rapid and economical school construction during the decades following World War II. As the most intact of the three elementary schools in Danville designed by the South Carolina-based firm Lyles, Bissett, Carlisle, and Wolff between 1958 and 1969, Cedarbrook Elementary School well represents the work of this national firm.