Dorchester Illustration no. 2478 All Saints Parish
All Saints’ Episcopal Church began in 1867 as a mission of St. Mary’s Church, and in 1874 it became a separate parish in Dorchester Lower Mills.. In 1882 Colonel Oliver Peabody and his wife, Mary Lothrop Peabody, paid to have the chapel moved along Dorchester Avenue from Lower Mills to Ashmont. The building was placed on a lot that is now home to the Ashmont T station. At that time the railroad station was on the north side of Peabody Square, at the angle created by Dorchester Avenue and Argyle Street (now Talbot).
The building appears at the left of the photograph in its location near Peabody Square. The detail from the 1884 atlas shows the location of the Parish of All Saints as well as Ashmont Station.
Colonel Oliver Peabody and his wife, Mary Lothrop Peabody, endowed All Saints’ with vast sums of money. They contributed eighty thousand toward the one hundred fifteen thousand dollars needed to build the new stone church in Peabody Square at 209 Ashmont Street from 1892 to 1894.