In 1875, Ferdinand Stuflesser founded a sculpture workshop at the Petlin Hof farm, complete with a 15-metre-high workroom for altarpieces. In 1910, Ferdinand’s son Johann took over the business and expanded the market overseas.

In 1907, altar-maker Josef Höglinger had the Villa Schönblick built beneath the Plajes Hof farm. The villa housed a workshop, rooms for visiting artisans, and a small guesthouse.

In 1926, additional rooms were built in an annex; Höglinger also relocated his workshop to the new premises, replacing its predecessor with a dining room. The Villa Schönblick thus became the Hotel Regina, run by the Höglinger family until its sale and demolition in 2008, after which it was replaced by the Hotel Adler Balance. 

Although the house and workshop which art distributor Franz Schmalzl de Ianesc built on Antonibo-den in 1872/73 was unassuming in size and nature, by the turn of the century the Marienheim had grown to become the third-largest hotel in St. Ulrich— complete with a swimming pool and a dining room which occupied an entire floor.

Stufan farm site (today Villa Margherita) is considered to be one of the oldest recorded settlement sites in St. Ulrich. The altar builder and manufacturer, Josef Rifesser Sr., built the twin farmhouses in 1872 and, in 1882, converted them into an art school for church interior decorations with its own sculpture and carpentry workshop. The business was one of the largest altar-building workshops in St. Ulrich around 1900.  His son, Josef Jr. (bera Sepl da Stufan), carried on with the company and opened a branch at the railway station in Brixen.

This turn-of-the-century villa, known as the 'red house', or 'angel's castle' because of its statue of St. Michael, was built by the altar builder and manufacturer Josef Runggaldier, living in the 'Blue House' next door, for his son Josef Jr. and was equipped with its own workshop on the ground floor. It is still used as an atelier today by sculptor Hermann-Josef Runggaldier, a great-grandson of the original constructor.

Villa Rifesser, since 2006 a listed building that was influenced by late Historicism and features a verandah with Jugendstil elements, came about in 1890 thanks to the conversion of the old farmhouse by the altar builder and manufacturer, Josef Rifesser. His son, Josef Jr., carved four wooden busts of figures involved in the Tyrolean Rebellion of 1809 for the bay window. The workshop on the ground floor was used by the sculptor, Pepi Rifesser, a grandson of the builder, until the turn of the century.

The old Lusenberg farmhouse (in Ladin Jumbierch) was converted into a bourgeois dwelling in 1830 by Annamaria Pezlauzer Moroder. She was the grandmother of the sculptor and painter Josef Moroder (1846-1939), who added the name of the house to his own. Moroder Lusenberg set up his painter's atelier, which is still in its original state, on the upper floor. His second wife Felizita ran an antiques business from there. The sculpture workshop on the ground floor is also in its original state. Moroder's grandson, Harald Schmalzl, still works there today as a sculptor.

Franz Martiner Senior da Kuenz, himself a manufacturer and son of a trading family based in Valencia, had the turn-of-the-century villa complete with production and despatch facilities built in 1897. He later passed the altar-building business that he had set up one year previously on to his son Franz Jr. Like many other Gröden altar builders, Franz Martiner's company exported to other countries in the pre-1914 Habsburg empire and was awarded the title of Chamber Supplier from Archduchess Maria Theresa von Braganza.

In 1909, Rudolf Moroder de Lenért had a house with a sculpture workshop built on the grounds of 'Pitl Paul' farm. He called the new construction 'Villa Rudolfine' - a combination of his first name and the name of his wife, Josephine. Rudolf Moroder was awarded a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition. His premature death in the First World War put an end to the 'Gebrüder Moroder's' production of sacred objects. The artist couple, Rudolf Moroder and Finy Martiner, lived and worked in Villa Rudolfine until the beginning of the 20th century.

Franz Moroder de Plandemureda extended little Lenért farmhouse and set up production of ecclesiastical art as a new branch of the 'Gebrüder Moroder' company. In 1906, he purchased an art school in Offenburg, which was managed by his sons, Eduard and Rudolf. Pre-1914, there were up to 40 artisans working at Lenért and Offenburg at times. His grandson, Norbert, is said to have carried on carving wood in this historical workshop before it closed down a few years ago.