Redfield College opened in September 1887 (137 years ago) (1887-09) and graduated its first class in 1894.
The first Redfield College classes were held in the town's Congregational Church, but the school soon purchased an old hotel building located in a nearby town, and moved the structure to Redfield to house the college.
Redfield College offered both high school and college classes, and in addition to an academic curriculum offered classes in teacher training, business, music, and theology.
In 1934, the school's campus was converted into a home for elderly and indigent members of the Order of the Eastern Star, and the buildings served in that capacity until 1975.
College records (correspondence) from 1913 to 1933 are held by the South Dakota Conference of the United Church of Christ Archives at Augustana University in Sioux Falls.