The congregation of Our Saviour Lutheran Church purchased its present site at 33rd Street and The Alameda from the Frank Novak Realty Company in 1919 and in 1920 constructed a wood frame chapel that seated 200.

On August 8, 1921, a fire burned the rear half of the chapel, destroying the pipe organ that the congregation had brought with them from their former home on E. Fairmount Avenue in Baltimore.

Initial sketches and preliminary plans were provided in June 1927, and Edward A. Wehr of Pittsburgh was chosen as the general contractor.

This growth required the addition of a Parish Activities Building, to contain classrooms and meeting spaces, which was designed by architect Howard G. Hall of Baltimore.

6 section 4-2(1)[9] The church is located at the northeast corner of 33rd Street and The Alameda in the Ednor Gardens-Lakeside neighborhood, about 4 miles NNW from the center of Baltimore.

[10] The wrought iron hardware, made by Philadelphia craftsman Samuel Yellin, is of special interest because of its excellent conformity with the architectural motif.

The furnishings in the chancel are particularly harmonious because the pipe organ, altar, pulpit, communion rail, hymn boards, and lectern were all designed and built by M.P.

[12] The altar features a wooden carved reredos, which includes images of the four evangelists (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John).

[16] Playable from the organ console, the range and equal temperament of the bells are such that all melodies can be played or transposed to come within the compass of the chime.

In earlier days, the bells were frequently used to greet marchers as they paraded westbound along 33rd Street toward Memorial Stadium for various sporting events.

In addition to starting the city's first Sunday School for children and young adults with disabilities in 1951, it helped develop a community health facility and child care center.

Our Saviour Lutheran Church was one of eight in its neighborhood and the adjoining neighborhood of Coldsteam-Homestead- Montebello that banded together to fight "blockbusting" in their communities in the 1960s and 1970s—that is, when agents were "buying properties from white people for cheap due to fears of an influx of African-Americans, and then selling to African-Americans for significantly higher prices and often with financially-predatory lending terms."

"[23] This group of churches pooled their resources to hire Vincent Quayle, then a Jesuit seminarian, to investigate the predatory real estate practices in the area.

Thanks to the efforts of fair-housing advocates, Homestead-Montebello Churches Inc., and others, the U.S. Department of Justice initiated an investigation into the blockbusting practices in Baltimore.