Changes After Construction
This area, which was used as Şeyh Selami Ali Sufi Lodge (Dervish Lodge) in the 17th century, forms the foundations of the present campus with the Bowker and Barton Hall buildings constructed in the 19th century.
The historical campus was formed with the construction of Bowker Hall in 1876, Barton Hall in 1883, Round House in 1890, and Kinney Cottage in the early 1900s.
The campus buildings, which were used for educational purposes until 1913, were used as an orphanage and refugee house until the beginning of the First World War.
During the First World War, they were used by the Ottoman Army as barracks and a hospital.
In 1921, the “American Girls’ School” in Adapazarı was moved to this campus, and the campus continued to be used for educational activities.
In later periods, the campus took its present form through both the restoration of the existing structures and the addition of new buildings.
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The educational roots of the school, known today as Üsküdar American High School, date back to the girls’ school opened by American missionaries in Bahçecik, İzmit, in 1876.
The school moved to Adapazarı in 1885 and settled on its present campus in 1921.
The campus hosted the American College for Girls, opened by American missionaries and known today as Robert College, between 1876 and 1913.
The educational institution, which admitted only female students until 1990, switched to co-education after this date, and the school’s name was changed to “Üsküdar American High School.”
Names such as Halide Edip Adıvar, Tansu Çiller, and Canan Karatay are among the graduates of this school.
