***Paranormal Metrou***(imported post) Haunting History of: Kendrick Mansion ~ Trail End, Sheridon ,Wyoming , U.S.A The house sits on a hill overlooking Sheridan. It is Flemish revival with curved and linear gables, balconies and covered porches. A circular driveway winds around the front, a carriage house sits around back and an impeccably landscaped lawn surrounds it all John Kendrick was a poor, Texas orphan. He moved to Wyoming in the late 1870s as part of a cattle drive, ultimately amassing a fortune in both ranching and real estate. His family lived for many years on his OW Ranch, but he wanted a home where he could retire. That was before he became a governor, three-time U.S. senator and built one of Wyoming’s most important irrigation systems. It has been said that during night surveillance by the local police department that surveillance cameras pick up ghostly images in the rooms. But when the police investigate in person, no one is ever found. The apparitions seem only to show up on camera and disembodied sounds are heard . hauntedplaces.org/ By CHRISTINE PETERSON > Kendrick married Eula Wulfjen in 1891. She was 18 years his junior, educated in finishing schools and raised by a genteel Civil War veteran. “His wife balked at the idea of this home, but he wanted to have the best,” Georgen said. “This was his home, the end of his trail, which is how it got the name, Trail End.” The grounds are covered with carefully clipped grasses, pruned bushes and flowering trees. It was the first professionally landscaped private property in the state. The house also has one of the state’s first built-in vacuum systems. A 600-pound metal behemoth sits in the basement, allowing housekeepers to only drag hoses from room to room instead of an unwieldy vacuum cleaner. Finished in 1913, Trail End had electricity, an intercom system and 12 bathrooms. Eula hired a decorator from New York City who helped the house become more than just the Victorian mansion she had imagined. Eula liked the finer things in life. A newspaper in Washington, D.C., ran a drawing of her once standing on the steps of the U.S. Capitol wearing a squirrel-collared coat – the height of fashion at the time. “She took it upon herself to bring some glamour to Wyoming,” Georgen said. Their children, especially their son, Manville Kendrick, and daughter-in-law, Diana, followed suit. Diana once served an entire Thanksgiving dinner in the upstairs ballroom while guests played cards. John Kendrick died in 1933, 20 years after the house was finished. Eula stayed with Manville and Diana until the late 1950s and Manville sold it to the local historical society in 1968, Georgen said. Photos of friends and family dot a wall in the middle of the staircase like most mansions of the early 1900s. The friends are likely just a little more famous than those pictured in other houses and include presidents Calvin Coolidge, Warren Harding and Woodrow Wilson, to name a few. Notes are scrawled on the bottom: “To Mrs. Kendrick with good wishes, Eleanor Roosevelt,” “To Rosa Maye Kendrick, from her affectionate friend Nellie Tayloe Ross” and “To Senator John B. Kendrick in memory of the years of friendship and association in the senate. Florence Kling Harding.” The mansion isn’t like many other historic Wyoming homes. It isn’t Western, it isn’t rural and it certainly isn’t rustic. You won’t find statues of bronze cowboys or bucking horses. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 26, 1970 trib/lifestyles/ Photo 1 by sheridanmedia- Photo 2 by Scott Burgan flickr/photos/63339942@N00/1849766210 PHOTOS 3,4,5,6,&7 BY trib/lifestyles/ Photo 8 by IreneWyo wikipedia.org
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