How do you get into Speakeasy + Whiskey Bar At The Doyle Hotel?
We have not confirmed it. Speakeasy + Whiskey Bar At The Doyle Hotel 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.
The building
Documented — Speakeasy + Whiskey Bar At The Doyle Hotel occupies the Paxton Place, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 82001810. 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 82001810 · NPS nomination document
Where Speakeasy + Whiskey Bar At The Doyle Hotel sits
Speakeasy + Whiskey Bar At The Doyle Hotel is in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the county of the same name, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Charlottesville. If you know another, tell us.
Virginia holds 30 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Virginia speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Virginia
Virginia did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1916, four 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, Virginia already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Virginia.
What the newspapers recorded in Virginia
Searching the Library of Congress run of Virginia newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Virginia:
- Richmond times-dispatch, February 11, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Richmond times-dispatch, March 7, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Richmond times-dispatch, October 17, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Richmond times-dispatch, January 2, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Speakeasy + Whiskey Bar At The Doyle Hotel by phone on (434) 290-0190 and through its own website.
The address is 499 W Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22903-5539. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speakeasy + Whiskey Bar At The Doyle Hotel we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
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.