The Crest Pier is the recreation center for the Borough of Wildwood Crest.  The original building dated back to 1905 and was built on a pier over the ocean on Seaview Avenue between Lavender Road and Heather Road.

At that time, Seaview Avenue was a promenade along the oceanfront. The beach grew dramatically over the next thirty years, and Atlantic, Ocean, and Beach Avenues have all been added to an area that was literally in the sea in the early 1900’s.

The original Crest Pier was totally destroyed by fire in 1917.  A second pier was built in 1920 across Heather Road on Seaview Avenue between Heather Road and Crocus Road. By the 1930’s, the beach had expanded so much that Atlantic Avenue had been added and the new street separated the Pier from the beach. In 1948, the second Crest Pier was moved eastward, across Atlantic Avenue.