The exciting and complex story of Appartments des Soeurs Garde-Malades building sheds light on the social topography and social history of Istanbul and Beyoğlu from the 1850s to the present day. Old maps, faded photographs, yellowed pages of documents retrieved from archives, pre-renovation photographs of an abandoned building, and the project documents of a building meticulously restored by an entrepreneur a century after its construction—all these elements add different hues to this story.

When the building is put to new use, the structure that once housed the vibrant lives of Levantine families, later experienced more subdued days, and fell into obscurity as a repository for the dusty documents of a bank archive, will come to life again. Old names, events, memories, and images will reappear in the elegant rooms, reception desks, and hallway walls of the Soeurs Garde-Malades (Tomtom Suites) Hotel: plaques, booklets, reproductions, perhaps as mementos.