How do you get into 61 Main Bar & Lounge?
We have not confirmed it. 61 Main Bar & Lounge 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 and the district
Documented — 61 Main Bar & Lounge stands inside the Plymouth Historic District, a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 86000343. A district listing covers a group of properties rather than a single address, so the federal record establishes the age and character of the streetscape around this venue rather than of its own walls.
National Register reference 86000343 · NPS nomination document
Where 61 Main Bar & Lounge sits
61 Main Bar & Lounge is in Plymouth, New Hampshire, in Grafton County, in the Northeast of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Plymouth. If you know another, tell us.
New Hampshire holds thirteen listed venues in this directory. See them all on our New Hampshire speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in New Hampshire
New Hampshire did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1918, two 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, New Hampshire already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in New Hampshire.
What the newspapers recorded in New Hampshire
Searching the Library of Congress run of New Hampshire newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from New Hampshire:
- The White Mountain echo, July 18, 1925 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach 61 Main Bar & Lounge through its own website and on Facebook, Instagram, and X.
The address is 61 Main St Unit 2, Plymouth, NH 03264. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For 61 Main Bar & Lounge we hold street address, official website, social accounts, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold telephone number, opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a lounge and the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.