 The college and seminary was opened on 25 February 1923 and remained on the site until during World War II when it was given ten days' notice by the Air Force that the college had to move; upon which it transferred to North Walkerville.The principal was Pastor J. P. Löhe, after whom the library would later be named.The seminary was able to remain on the North Adelaide site and did so, expansively renovating the old college site to extend the seminary itself at the end of the war.