Pictured here in the 1940s, the Kenwood Apartments, 1814 Hauser, were at least partially built in 1889 by Helena physicians Malcomb G. Parsons (1836-1920) and Heber Robarts (1852-1922) as a private sanitarium. Following the failure of this sanitarium venture, Robarts went on to become a pioneer in radiography, which eventually cost him his life.

Advertsing was placed in Helena and Butte newspapers, but the doctors' plans did not go as hoped, and they were sued by Helena contactors George H. Pew and Arthur Pew in 1890. The property was subsequently sold at a sheriff's auction. To what extent the structure was finished before the lawsuit is not known, but it seems likely that it at least mostly completed.

Late historian Ellen Baumler, writing in the winter 2003 Montana - The Magazine of Western History:

"Although there is no official record of residents prior to
1900 at the Helena home, there is ample evidence to support a founding date of 1896 or 1897. A request for records written in the 1930S and folded among the pages of the matrons' book reads, 'I was sent from Fargo, North Dakota, in the years of 1896 or 1897 to the Florence Crittenton Home in Kenwood in Montana.... I was between ten and eleven years old. I went to school in Kenwood.'
Further, an informational pamphlet prepared in 1931 states
that the home 'was started 35 years ago.'"

The building was purchased in 1900, and enlarged in 1910.

The couple sold the apartments and left Helena in 1944, moving to Oregon. To whom the aprtments were sold was not found.

The last newspaper mention found of the Kenwood Apts. was from a 2013 estate sale notice.

It went by the name of the Cottonwood Apartments in 2009-2010 newspaper classified ads.

According to 2026 online tax records, it is still apartments.