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William Fitzjames Oldham came to Singapore on 6 February 1885 to establish a Methodist Mission. As a gifted teacher, he immediately saw the need for a young society to be educated and determined to set up a Methodist school.
By 1886, enough funds had been raised and on 1st March 1886 Reverend Oldham and his wife established the Anglo-Chinese School in a shophouse along Amoy Street. It was a school by day and a boarding school by night for students who needed boarding and lodging facilities.
The ACS school building continued to house missionaries and young boarders until 1888, when boarders were relocated to a separate boarding house in Oldham Lane known as Bellevue. In 1896, the boarding house was demolished and rebuilt in 1897. In 1902, the boarding house was renamed Oldham Hall in honor of Bishop Oldham.
On 14 December 1926, Oldham Hall moved to Barker Road. Since then, it has been rebuilt twice, once in 1985 and most recently in 2001, together with the redevelopment of the Anglo-Chinese School campus.
ACS Oldham Hall reopened at the end of 2002 as a co-educational hostel for students from ACS as well as other nearby schools. It enjoys close proximity and spiritual affinity with Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road) and Barker Road Methodist Church.
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