Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1663
Postcard showing All Saints Church about 1910.
All Saints’ Episcopal Church began in 1867 as a mission of St. Mary’s Church and was formed as a separate parish in Dorchester Lower Mills in 1874 in a wooden frame chapel built for the mission in 1871.
Colonel Oliver Peabody and his wife, Mary Lothrop Peabody, endowed All Saints’ with vast sums of money. In 1882 they paid to have the chapel moved along Dorchester Avenue from Lower Mills to Ashmont. 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.
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