In the 1790s, Andrew Craigie added this hallway and the ell to its north.

Throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth century this space was always used as a hallway and formal entry to the home. It was an elegant open hallway that served as the primary carriage entrance for guests or family arriving and departing. In the early twentieth century, this hallway was altered to accommodate the installation of an elevator for Alice Longfellow. At that time, the original entrance door was converted to a window, and the space required for the elevator was sensitively designed by Alice's cousin, Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr.

Blue Entry, west end