How do you get into Baxter’s Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Baxter’s 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.
The drinks at Baxter’s Speakeasy
How the venue describes itself: “Find information, resources and relevant links for baxtersspeakeasy.com. This domain may be for sale.” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Blood and Sand, Bobby Burns, and Rob Roy are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — Baxter’s Speakeasy occupies the Portage Hotel, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 80004611. 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 80004611 · NPS nomination document
Where Baxter’s Speakeasy sits
Baxter’s Speakeasy is in Akron, Ohio, in Summit County, in the Midwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Akron — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Ohio page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Baxter’s Speakeasy are Northside Speakeasy, about 400 m away.
Ohio holds 54 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Ohio speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Ohio
Ohio came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Ohio.
What the newspapers recorded in Ohio
Searching the Library of Congress run of Ohio newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Ohio:
- The toiler, February 13, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, June 17, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, December 31, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, November 4, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Baxter’s Speakeasy by phone on (330) 800-0327, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 22 North High Street, Akron, OH 44308. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Baxter’s Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold 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 and include a speakeasy tag.
Two independent open datasets, OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, both carry this venue at this location. Agreement between them is the strongest existence check we can make without visiting.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.