New Eyewitness Account?

[Steve]

I know I'm responding to posts from two years ago, but I have a question about the particulars about Laura Keene's exact route before she reached the dress circle. Hopefully somebody can answer it.

Laura Keene's account from the April 17, 1865 edition of the New York Herald says that she "made her way, which was rather circuitous, through the dress circle to the President's box, and got there a few moments after the occurrence":



Below is a map of the Dress Circle level to visualize part of her route. She would've gotten on to the dress circle from the door labelled "L" from the reception room/lounge and walked down to door labelled "M" which was the Presidential box door. Where/how exactly did the Fords' apartment connect to the lounge? The map is from the 1960's reconstruction proposal.



(The map is linked from a blog post, so apologies to anybody years in the future if it disappears, and credit to the PA Historian Civil War blog for the red annotations.)