Two stairs in different styles, one behind the other, confirm the back-to-front enlargement of this house, as does the anomaly of two chimneys, also one behind the other. Boxed stairs in three short runs with scroll-cut balusters indicate that the older section was in the rear. The front stairs have twisted balusters, popular in the mid-eighteenth century. The gable-on-hip roof may also result from the modification of a small gable into something grander. Augustus Lucas first appears in The Newport Mercury announcing a consignment of African and Indian slaves for sale. An orchard on his property and Lucas's reputation as an expert in grafting fruit trees remind us that a number of properties in this now crowded area had sizable gardens through the eighteenth century. A grandson, Augustus Johnson, was appointed stamp master in 1765, just in time to be swept up in the riots of that year. This house was a major target, and its owner was driven from Newport.