Eventually, with "the Westward growth of the city necessitating the abandonment of the original site," St. Peter's decamped to a temporary home in the New Assembly Rooms and broke ground on a building at the corner of Druid Hill Avenue and Lanvale Street on September 15, 1868.

[3] The church was designed in the style of the "Norman period of English Gothic" by Nathaniel Henry Hutton and John Murdoch.

George Dashiell (1780–1852) would actually attempt to establish his own "Evangelical Episcopal Church," in protest against the consecration of James Kemp as Bishop Suffragan of Maryland.

[4] More than a half-century later, another former Rector of St. Peter's would defect, largely in protest against Ritualism and emerging Anglo-Catholic tendencies in the Church: in 1873, The Rt.

George David Cummins, then Assistant Bishop of Kentucky, resigned his call to found the Reformed Episcopal Church.

Couched in the melioristic language of the Progressive Era, the ordinances' purported aim was "preserving peace, preventing conflict and ill feeling" between races, and "promoting the general welfare of the city.

Apparently rejecting Bishop Paret's entreaty to stay, the congregation sold their building to Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and began searching for a new site.

Bethel A. M. E. Church continues to worship in the building at Druid Hill Avenue and Lanvale Street to the present day.

Organized on February 15 and incorporated on May 30, 1850, the new Grace Church was designed by John Rudolph Niernsee and James Crawford Neilson, and situated at the corner of West Monument Street and Park Avenue.

Educated at the General Theological Seminary, Coxe brought High church sympathies to Grace and inaugurated a trend toward Anglo-Catholicism that continues in the parish today.

Nearly a decade long, Coxe's incumbency (1854–1863) was successful but still marked by internal divisions and controversy: during the American Civil War, Grace Church, like many white Maryland parishes, had divided loyalties.

Tensions were especially high during the Union occupation of the city, and in one––possibly apocryphal––incident, a "prominent society woman [...] haughtily and publicly rebuked an usher for 'daring to seat' a Federal officer in her pew" at Grace.

[8] In 1912, the two congregations merged, making the 1850 Grace Church (at West Monument Street and Park Avenue) their permanent home.

Humphries, who later oversaw the work of the Episcopal Mission in schools, hospitals, and prisons, is probably responsible for a reinvigoration in outreach and social good programs in the church at that time.

Reginald Mallett (1936–1944) and his successor, The Rev.Daniel Corrigan (1944–1948) practically settled any remaining disputes over Churchmanship, firmly establishing the church as an Anglo-Catholic center.

Rex Bozarth Wilkes (1949–1974), the congregation became steadily more diverse (with a new influx of African-American and Chinese families), and the church developed an active community ministry in Mount Vernon.

The second St. Peter's Church was constructed at the intersection of Druid Hill Avenue and Lanvale Street by the architects Nathaniel Henry Hutton and John Murdoch.

The building is an example of Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, which has been substantially altered and embellished over the years to suit increasingly Anglo-Catholic tastes.

Elements of the chancel, particularly the reredos, wall carvings and constructed marble credence table, bear striking resemblance to those in St Augustine's Church, Edgbaston in Birmingham.

[21] The church celebrates Solemn High Mass on Sundays and Feast Days as well as a Low Mass on Tuesdays and Wednesdays (choosing this more Catholic language, as opposed to the more Protestant Episcopal designations of "Holy Eucharist" or "The Office of Holy Communion" that appear in the Book of Common Prayer).

At various periods in its history, Grace & St. Peter's had a professional Choir of Men and Boys, with the choristers drawn from the church's school.

Along with the construction of the sacristy, the Resurrection Chapel, the Lady Chapel, the reordering of the chancel and sanctuary, and the installation of the Austin organ, some women of the parish––the Marshall sisters––identified the need for the church to be of service to the growing community of Cantonese immigrants living and working in Baltimore's Chinatown, a few blocks south of the church on Park Avenue.

[26] Meanwhile, Chinese membership at the church was so robust that a Cantonese-language Mass was added on Sunday afternoons, complete with choir and organ music.

Responsible for translating various parts of the liturgy were Mr. John Chin and Mrs. Lillian Kim, the latter of whom worked for Baltimore Mayor (and later Governor of Maryland) William Donald Schaefer.

[27] Mrs. Kim was also responsible for the church-sponsored Chinese New Year festivities and parade that took place on Park Avenue in front of Grace & St. Peter's each winter.