If you ever find yourself on the 2300 block of Carpenter, you’ll probably notice the former Saint Anthony de Padua Parish School, a lovely building constructed in 1897 and designed in the Romanesque style by Frank Watson. This building hasn’t been a school for a long time, though. Ingerman Regis Corporation bought the property in the late 1990s and renovated it, creating dozens of affordable senior housing units. As part of the plan, they demolished a number of surrounding homes on Carpenter and Montrose Streets, creating a decent-sized parking lot and quite a bit of open space for the building’s residents.

A surface parking lot and a bunch of open space made sense here in the late 1990s, when the Graduate Hospital neighborhood was home to hundreds of vacant homes and lots. But not so much these days. This being the case, in 2021 we told you that the owners of the property intended to bring market-rate housing back to this site, with plans for ten homes on Bonsall Street and six on Montrose. Since then, we’ve seen the homes rise on Bonsall, and those homes look to be materially finished. At least four homes have sold, at prices starting just over $1M.

The homes on Bonsall were intended as a first phase, with the Montrose homes expected to rise later. As the homes on Bonsall are done, it makes sense that the Montrose homes are now getting constructed. And indeed, check it out!

One of the homes on Montrose is currently listed for sale at a $1.3M price point. Other than the higher price point, we also noticed that the listing shows renderings of the homes on Montrose, and they don’t look anything like the homes that were built on Bonsall. What gives?

It turns out the development group that built the Bonsall homes decided to sell the second phase lots rather than build the rest of the project. The Montrose homes are being developed by a separate party, hence the very different looking renderings. We welcome the pivot, as the second phase homes will only add to the architectural diversity of the block. The home coming to the corner of 24th & Montrose looks like it’ll be the most unique of the bunch, though we can only see it in the background in the rendering above. Here’s to hoping we get a better rendering of the corner before the building is completed!