Changes After Construction
A wooden school building was constructed on land in Teşvikiye donated on the condition that it be used as a school; the fire in 1920 damaged a large part of the school, and the repair process was carried out under financial difficulties.
Due to the increasing number of boarding and day students after World War II, a need for an additional building arose; permission for the construction of the additional building was obtained in 1955.
It was transferred to the Turkish Government in 1979 due to financial difficulties and was named “Nişantaşı Anatolian High School.”
The school building underwent restoration in 2014; the restoration process affected the institution in terms of physical use during the 2014–2016 academic periods.
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The structure has also been used under the name “English High School for Boys.”
The institution was established in 1905 for the children of the members of the British community in Istanbul.
It is recorded that Sultan Abdülhamid II granted land in Firuzağa to the British Embassy for the new school; permission for the sale of this land, which was not found suitable for the school, was given on 12 April 1911, and subsequently, Sultan Mehmed V Reşad donated its current location in Teşvikiye on the condition of it being "only a school."
The granting of permission for the additional building in 1955 ensured that the school became one of the first examples of a foreign school to be expanded after the Treaty of Lausanne.
