How do you get into Chris & Fawn’s Bourbon of Proof Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Chris & Fawn’s Bourbon of Proof 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: Old Fashioned, Boulevardier, and Ward Eight are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Chris & Fawn’s Bourbon of Proof Speakeasy sits
Our record places Chris & Fawn’s Bourbon of Proof Speakeasy in Washtenaw County, Michigan, in the Midwest of the United States. The source data carries coordinates and a county or region but no municipality, which usually means an address outside an incorporated city, or a record that was never given one. The map pin is the reliable part.
Michigan holds 36 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Michigan speakeasy guide.
If you know which town Chris & Fawn’s Bourbon of Proof Speakeasy is in, tell us and we will place it properly.
Prohibition in Michigan
Michigan 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, Michigan already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Michigan.
What the newspapers recorded in Michigan
Searching the Library of Congress run of Michigan newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Michigan:
- Alma record, February 19, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Charlevoix county herald, July 9, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Dearborn independent, August 28, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Alma record, April 1, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Chris & Fawn’s Bourbon of Proof Speakeasy by phone on (734) 306-1742 and on Facebook.
The address is 273 Winchester Dr, MI 48176-9265. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Chris & Fawn’s Bourbon of Proof Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, and social accounts. We do not yet hold official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.