The kitchen was the largest room added to the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House in the late eighteenth century. It replaced the original kitchen which was located where the dining room is now.

Throughout the nineteenth century the new kitchen appeared quite different and was larger than it is today.

In addition to daily food preparation, the Longfellow domestic workers dried laundry in the kitchen, and the room was a favored haunt for some of the family's cats.