On 1 August 1897, a contract was concluded between the Timișoara City Hall and the Minister of Religion and Education, Gyula Wlassics, regarding the construction of a new building for the State High School; it was completed in 1903.

The first generation of students (15 Hungarians, 10 Romanians, 9 Jews, and the rest Germans, Serbs and Bulgarians) started school in the new building in the same year.

In 1944, near the close of World War II, the school building was occupied and turned into a hospital by the Red Army.

In 1945, following the establishment of a Romanian Communist Party-dominated government, a number of students took part in a spontaneous demonstration in favor of the embattled King Michael I.

Students and teachers were then arrested; principal Vasile Mioc and his deputy Iuliu Ilca were sent to the Caracal labor camp for three months.

[8] The building was erected between April 1902 and July 1903, on a 2,500-square-fathom plot of land, with four street fronts, the main facade being individualized by a huge access gate made of solid wood, beautifully decorated.

Both are embedded in the high school building and, even if they were built in successive stages, fall within the compositional principles of the original core.