Blaine School (Blaine Community Center)
The original Blaine School was built in 1890 at 973 N. Main Street in Centerville. It was often referred to as the West Centerville School. The first permanent school in Butte was the Adams, also known as the East Centerville School; it housed students in grades 1-4. Students transferred to Blaine for grades 5-8. By 1903 the Adams school was closed, and Blaine was enlarged. The Blaine school closed in 1959 because of extensive earthquake damage and was eventually destroyed. Students were transferred temporarily to the Kennedy and Sherman Schools until the new school was finished in September of that year. The new Blaine, built across Bennett Street, is now in Walkerville.
New school boundaries were established in 1964 because of overcrowding. Students living north of Lexington Terrace went to Sherman School, while students living on Cora Terrace went to Blaine. Missoula Gulch became the Blaine’s western boundary. The south boundary followed the railroad tracks around to the Washington school line at Ruby Street.
The Blaine closed in 1982 and opened as Blaine Community Center in 1984, but is now closed to the public.
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