History:     
The story of St. Anne’s Parish began in the spring of 1906 when a delegation of Queen Anne residents visited Bishop Edward O’Dea with a petition signed by 40 residents of the area requesting their own church. Bishop O’Dea instructed the Redemptorist Fathers at Sacred Heart Parish to work on this project. The parish would be named St. Anne’s. The Redemptorists acquired the property on the southeast corner of 2nd Ave. W. and W. Lee St. for a church. It was dedicated December 20, 1908.

For the first year and a half St. Anne’s was operated as a mission of Sacred Heart. However, on April 1, 1910 Bishop O’Dea appointed diocesan Father M. J. Woods as the new pastor of his own parish.

As the parish grew, a school was needed. The lots for the school were donated by the McDermott family and the pastor, Fr. James Dunne, had the plans drawn up by 1918. Construction was delayed until September, 1922, at which time Fr. Dunne was transferred and was replaced by Fr. Tomas Quain, who would remain pastor until he died in 1959.