Crestline school falls to wreckers

The Crestline Community Center is no more as it was razed by wreckers last week. The building had been a school, when the school closed it became a community center and continued to be a meeting place in the community for over 100 years. Photo by Danny O’Hara.
The Crestline Community Center is no more as it was razed by wreckers last week. The building had been a school, when the school closed it became a community center and continued to be a meeting place in the community for over 100 years. Photo by Danny O’Hara.

The community of Crestline lost an iconic landmark, to the building wreckers, last week as the century old community center was razed. The former Crestline School building had become dilapidated and an environmental hazard. The red brick building was constructed in May 1921 to take the place of a frame structure that had served the community for previous 46 years before it’s demolition. The first …