Trail End State Historic Site

John B. Kendrick came up from Texas in 1879 as a cowhand with a trail herd of cattle, settled near Sheridan in 1889 and built the Kendrick Cattle Company into a ranching empire. In 1908 he began this house on a hill above Big Goose Creek, designed by the Billings architect Glenn Charles MacAlister in the Flemish Revival style, one of very few in the West, its brick laid in the demanding Flemish bond. It took five years and about $164,000, and the family moved in in July 1913.

He hardly lived in it. Kendrick was elected governor in 1914 and went to the U.S. Senate three years later, and the house became a summer home; he died in 1933. His widow, Eula, lived on here with their son's family until 1961. By the late 1960s the house was in line to be torn down, and the Sheridan County Historical Society bought it, opened it as a museum and in 1982 passed it to the state.

The mansion and its carriage house, now a small theater, sit on 3.8 acres at the top of Clarendon Avenue.