In the 1960s, the Idaho Conference of Seventh-day Adventists developed plans for a new campus for the aging and outgrown Gem State, further from the expanding city. It was voted that a new school should be built in a more rural area. The land chosen had been bought in previous years, in the country on top of a hill overlooking the Boise Valley. By the fall of 1962, the administration building, dormitories, power plant and laundry were complete enough to start school.