The school was built in 1892 and it was used for cultural initiatives: it offered several services (such as for example: elementary schools, kindergarten, home economics courses and a musical band).
It had three floors but its original aspect has been modified during Fascism.
The elementary school and the kindergarten were owned by Crespi family. Although they were private institutions, the scholastic programs were similar to those in the public schools and they were decided thanks to agreements between the school direction and the Crespi family.
The lessons were held five days a week and the scholastic schedule was from 8.00 to 12.00 o'clock and from 13.30 to 16.00 o'clock. All children living in Crespi d’Adda could attend the courses. The books, the notebooks and the pencils were free for all children.

Since boys usually started to work when they were 9-10, the school offered only three courses. For he most studious boys, the factory offered a bus service for daily transport to Bergamo where, after an integrative course, they started to attend a 4-year-professional training course: at the end they received a qualification diploma allowing them to work in the firm.
The most deserving children received scholarships by Crespi, who wanted to incite boys in studying and also reduce scholastic expenses.

The girls living in the village or coming from other towns could attend an home economics course. It was free and at the end they received a qualification diploma.

In the same building there was also the musical band centre, where the 50 musicians attended music courses in order to study for patriotic and religious parades or concerts.

On the back of the building there was a theatre also used as cinematograph. Here people could put on performances.

They were also activities geared to spread culture but they have become less important under the STI control (just the school worked under the government direction).

The Bramante style church, is almost a copy of Saint Maria in Piazza, a church in Busto Arsizio, the town where Crespi family was born.
It was built between 1891 and 1893 and has a skirting board made of “ceppo dell’Adda” (sedimentary stone), an external skirting made of travertine and a portal made of red marble from Verona.
In the upper part of the squared plant there is a wide octagonal dome, which is encircled by an arcaded loggia and marble pillars.
Inside, the dome covers the whole believers area; there are three altars, the baptistery, the choir and the organ (whose pipes are set above the entry portal). Two 16th/17th-century paintings represent Christ’s nativity. The church has also a painting ascribed to Gaudenzio Ferrari, an eighteenth-century crucifix and a silver monstrance.

In 1893 it was used as subsidiary church to the parish church of Capriate d’Adda, in 1926 it became vicariate (so it was possible to hold all kinds of religious celebrations).

In 1984 the building was given to the community, it became parish church only in 1990.

Nearby the church there was a public washhouse. There the women of the village washed the laundry till the houses have been provided with tubs.
The town were also provided with a washhouse in order to avoid going to the river (and walking for minutes) to wash the laundry near the ford. The construction of the washhouse was imposed to Crespi family, who was allowed to build a footbridge, which linked the banks of the river Adda (the Bergamo bank to the Milan bank, near Concesa in Trezzo sull’Adda).

A community can not live on bread and job, but on prayer, on culture, on rest periods, on healthy and honest sport… Silvio Crespi created a sporting centre provided with a football pitch, a cycling track, a tennis court, etc.
The sporting centre became famous between 1920 and 1930, thanks to the bike races that were organised (for example, the “Giro della Bergamasca”, similar to the present Milan-Sanremo Tour), which the most important national and international cyclists took part to.

The after-work was used to let workers have fun in their leisure time thanks to several activities (such as for example sports, education, assistance and beneficence activities, which created collaboration among the members).
All the cultural, sport and recreational activities were patronized by Crespi family. There were several divisions: a cinema division, a sporting area, a non-professional acting company and a music&culture division. Moreover there was a shop which sold less-than-21-degrees-alcoholic drinks.
All these services were organized in the after-work club near the public washhouse and the church.
The workers used the building for their meetings or to chat, to play cards or bowls.
There the commuters were used to have their lunch.

The public baths were built near the chimneystack, which was used in order to heat the water for the factory. The building offered showers and a small warmed swimming pool. They were free for the population of the village and the workers, especially when the houses were not provided with baths.

Near the buildings of the company offices, nearby the crossroad between the road to cemetery and the road to the pinewood, there is a building which was used as clinic and hospital.
It was provided with all the medical equipments and run by a doctor-surgeon and a nurse. They offered medical assistance to the inhabitants.
On the ground floor there were the clinic, a room used for small surgical operations, for medications or for the first aid. Upstairs there were rooms for the in-patients.

It was workers’ cooperative for the retail of groceries and other kinds of products. It was the only one in the town, then and nowadays.
It was nearby "the pinewood", opposite to the public gardens. Today it offers an hairdresser shop, a bakery, a grocery store and a cloth shop.

The cemetery of the village, built between 1904 and 1905, has an impressive mausoleum.
On the top of the "pyramid"-shaped mausoleum, there are three statues representing three theological virtues: Faith, Hope and Charity.
Upstairs, beyond the door, there is a chapel and elegant mosaics. In the middle of the chapel there are two doors bringing downstairs to the Crespi’s sarcophagus. We remind the Latin writing on the front bronze door: “Mors et vita duello conflixere mirando:mors mortua est” (Death and life have faced in a prodigious duel: death has been defeated). It is a sentence from Easter Mass, which reminds Lord’s resurrection.
Semicircular walls branch off from the mausoleum: the Crespi family seems to hold workers in a fond embrace, maybe a paternalistic gesture and a "friendly" embrace, because Crespi family has always been loved by the population of the village. This mutual affection lasts nowadays, despite Crespi family has not lived here for over seventy years.

In the lawns outside the mausoleum there are cross-shaped headstones in cement, which were offered to the workers by the factory. The graves built by workers’ expense had to be built close to the surrounding wall, in order not to break the link between the mausoleum and the central graves.

On the headstones placed near the cemetery entrance, the visitor can notice several children’s graves. They died in between 1928-29 and 1932-33 because of a gastro-enteritis epidemic.

There is also a particular family-grave: on the headstone, in fact, they carved the tools which the graven worker (or head-department) was used to use (the cogwheel, the team, the line, the hammer, the pliers, the compass, etc.)

Close to the tempered iron railing, two buildings rise: a mortuary chapel and a deposit for tools.

The cemetery, as the whole village, is under Fine Arts Regional Board protection.