How do you get into 1347 Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. 1347 Speakeasy is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Bronx, Monkey Gland, and Hanky Panky are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — 1347 Speakeasy occupies the Santa Fe Depot, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 83000424. The listing is a federal record maintained by the National Park Service, and the nomination document is the primary source for the building’s architectural and social history.
National Register reference 83000424 · NPS nomination document
Where 1347 Speakeasy sits
1347 Speakeasy is in Baldwin City, Kansas, in Douglas County, in the Great Plains of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Baldwin City. If you know another, tell us.
Kansas holds 17 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Kansas speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Kansas
Kansas did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1881, 39 years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, Kansas already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Kansas.
What the newspapers recorded in Kansas
Searching the Library of Congress run of Kansas newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Kansas:
- The Topeka state journal, November 22, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Western Kansas world, April 14, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Topeka state journal, February 26, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Topeka state journal, May 4, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach 1347 Speakeasy on Facebook.
The address is 1515 High St Track B, Baldwin City, KS 66006. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For 1347 Speakeasy we hold street address, social accounts, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold telephone number, official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy and the map tags on the record mark it a cocktail bar.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.