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Egleston Hall has always evolved to meet the moment — and the people — in front of it.
● 1918 — Egleston Hall opens as a parish house and community gathering space, built with a $25,000 bequest in the Akron Plan style — a design explicitly meant to bring people together
● Early decades — The hall becomes a hub for Atlanta civic and social life, hosting dances, receptions, and community events at a time when few such welcoming spaces existed in Midtown
● Agnes Scott & Georgia Tech dances — Young Atlantans crossed town to gather here, finding friendship and, sometimes, something more. One Canterbury Court resident still remembers meeting his future wife on that dance floor
● Civil rights era — When many doors in Atlanta were closed, All Saints' was open. That commitment to welcome has defined this parish ever since.
● Recent decades — Concerts, exhibitions, funeral receptions, staff offices, ministry programming — Egleston has kept saying yes to whatever the parish and the neighborhood needed
This would not be Egleston's first transformation. It has always changed in service of its calling.
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