 This began a process whereby both branches of the family sold large plots of acreage to wealthy persons who established handsome homes and estates on the neck.About this time, Newberry Davenport, Jr. would have added the kitchen wing to the old house, continuing the stone fabric and gable roof of the main house.The grade level of the land around the house may have begun to be heightened at this time as access to the original basement kitchen was closed-off.