 It is not known when exactly they were built, and they have all been altered over the years.The property was first settled in the late 1730s by William Prendergast, a tenant farmer who leased southeast of the nascent settlement of Pawling from the Philipse family, the area's dominant landowners.He built the small house that became the kitchen wing in 1740, adding other buildings later and connecting the two through a stone passageway.