Growth of the community followed the development of local industry. By 1899, hotels, stores, and restaurants were established, along with the first volunteer fire department. The first school was established in 1899; church services were being held by the early 1890s and the first church was built as a missionary church on the Lower Kootenay Band reserve, with the next built in 1906 in Creston. The first resident medical practitioner, Dr. Henderson, arrived in 1908, and the first hospital opened in 1930. Creston's downtown area features several examples of Art Deco architecture, and thus attracts art and architectural study. Creston was incorporated as a village in 1924, and as a town in 1965.