institutions history, this was the main thing to see here, but the house dates back to 1892 william moncrief and his brother malcolm billed the house and then william lives here with his wife until 1910 when he sells the biggest part of the ranch to the gallatin family and then in 1923 bradford britain buys the house. and he puts it into this shape in 1928 after a remodel it has five bedrooms in it including bradford's big bedroom down in the wing when britain remodeled it in 1927. he made sure that every bedroom had its own bath. it's just a very ideal home for for a country. gentleman is really what it was. this was the repository of his art and this is where he came to relax and have a good time. it was sheridan. and in those days was the basically the heartbeat of the dude ranch industry and so there were lots of dude ranches and bradford had very good relations with those people and entertain them here the history of this area is what gives rise to that marvelous museum building what we would really like visitors to walk away from from the britain museum is a better picture of what the