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.

[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.

[2] This building, a wooden structure, was designed by Harriett Dozier, one of the few women architects active at this time.

[2] This building was designed by the architectural firm of Thomas Henry Morgan and John Robert Dillon.

[8][9] In 2020, American businesswoman and diplomat Anne Cox Chambers's funeral was held at All Saints'.