In 1889, Wallis Nash [Wikidata], a lawyer from England who came to Corvallis to work on the railroad,[4] constructed the area's first Episcopal church[5] on the corner of Jefferson and 7th (later moved to Madison and 7th) using materials salvaged from the original school chapel.

The same year, Bishop Benjamin Wistar Morris proposed to name it the Church of the Good Samaritan, and the vestry approved.

In 1960, after the congregation moved to a new facility, the original church was sold to the Elks and converted to secular use by the Corvallis Arts Center.

In 1963, it began negotiations with artist Gabriel Loire of Chartres, France, for a series of stained-glass chapel windows expressing the church's commitment to healing; the project was funded in part by physicians in the parish.

In 1968, the church contracted an additional 49 windows for the main sanctuary, entitled "The Revelation of Truth from God through Human Personality.