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Construction Time Line

1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915

In checking over the work yet to be done, we can assure you that we will be able to have this stuff all shipped to you not later than the later part of January, which will insure the completion of your work quite a while before the time mentioned in your letter.

Charles A. Lindner, Correspondence to Eula W. Kendrick, 1912

Though John Kendrick purchased the land upon which Trail End stands in 1895, he waited a dozen years before making the decision to begin building his "dream home."
1907

John and Eula begin search for architect

1908

Glenn Charles McAlister of Billings, MT chosen as architect

Ferguson & Pearson begin foundation excavation

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1909

Walls and roof in place

Rough electrical and plumbing work begins

Stonework ordered and installed

Walk-in vault installed

Lindner Manufacturing Co. hired to do woodwork
1910

Carriage House completed; Kendrick family moves in

Eula Kendrick begins shopping for furnishings

Miller Stewart & Beaton hired to do interior decorating

Hamling Tile hired to do tile and marble work

Plans in place for installation of pipe organ

Construction halts in early spring due to drought

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1911

Work on house begins again in early autumn

D. Everett Waid hired as interior designer

Morell & Nichols begin work on landscaping plan
1912

Burgess & Granden begin creating Trail End's custom light fixtures

F. M. Hamling dies; tile work continues under Omaha Marble

Interior woodwork begins arriving by train

Plumbing fixtures installed

Work begins on grading for landscaping

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1913

Window screens ordered and installed

Stationary cleaner installed

Intercoms installed

First boiler begins to fail

Beaton & Laier take over interior decorating work

Furnishings begin arriving from Grand Rapids

Burgess & Granden warehouse and store burns down

Family moves into Trail End in July

Fuller Studio takes room portraits
1914

First Open House held on New Year's Day

Plumbing  & electrical work continues

First group of trees planted on grounds

John elected Governor in November

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1915

Kendrick family moves to Cheyenne

Sidewalks poured

Furnace still causing problems

Lawn planted; landscaping finished

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