The Crown Hill Center is NOT a community center.

The building is a center for community but it is not a publicly funded and operated community center. Crown Hill Center is owned and operated by our wonderful neighbors Small Faces Child Development Center. The building also houses ARC Dance, Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society, a catering business, and TAJ yoga. They are generous in partnering with the community and making spaces available for neighbors to use but it is not a community center.

Neighbors rallied in 1918, before Crown Hill was part of Seattle, for Seattle Public Schools (SPS) to build a school. The school transformed several times, eventually serving kids in K-6 until it closed and dispersed students to surrounding elementary schools. From 1980 until 2013 SPS leased the building space to multiple tenants, including Small Faces.

Neighbors again rallied in 2010, this time for SPS to sell the property to Small Faces so it would continue to be used for child care and art organizations. The purchase of the building was possible only through the committed and engaged work of individual neighbors and neighborhood groups with leadership from Catherine Weatbrook.