All Saints' Episcopal Church is an Episcopal church in Atlanta, Georgia. The church was founded in 1903, with the current building constructed in 1906.
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33°46′17″N 84°23′16″W / 33.77139°N 84.38778°W | |
Location | 634 West Peachtree Street NW Atlanta, Georgia 30308 |
Denomination | Episcopal Church |
Website | allsaintsatlanta |
History | |
Founded | May 31, 1903 |
Consecrated | December 9, 1908 |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | Thomas Henry Morgan John Robert Dillon |
Architectural type | Gothic |
Completed | April 8, 1906 |
Administration | |
Province | Province IV |
Diocese | Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta |
In the early 1900s, Episcopalians in what is now midtown Atlanta petitioned the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia to establish a new church in midtown. During this time, the city of Atlanta was growing and expanding northward, and Episcopalians in the northern parts of the city wanted a place of worship closer to them than the churches in downtown Atlanta, which at the time included what would become the Episcopal Cathedral of Saint Philip.[1] In 1901, Mary Jane Thompson Peters, the widow of prominent Atlanta businessman Richard Peters, donated land for the construction of a new church.[2][3] This parcel, located at the intersection of North Avenue and West Peachtree Street, had previously been a part of Peters Park, a planned but never realized neighborhood in Atlanta that became much of the main campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology.[4]
On April 11, 1903, a cornerstone for a church building at the site was placed, with Holy Communion first held at the church on May 31 of that year with 45 members.[2] This building, a wooden structure, was designed by Harriett Dozier, one of the few women architects active at this time.[3][5] In 1906, this building was demolished and replaced with a Gothic sandstone building.[2] This building was designed by the architectural firm of Thomas Henry Morgan and John Robert Dillon.[3][6] Service was first held in this building on April 8, 1906, and it was consecrated two years later on December 9, 1908.[2] This current structure features several large stained glass windows, several of which are from Tiffany & Co.[2][7]
In 2003, the church commissioned a new pipe organ from American-based John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, the Opus 29.[8][9] In 2020, American businesswoman and diplomat Anne Cox Chambers's funeral was held at All Saints'.[10]