How do you get into The Hidden Door?
We have not confirmed it. The Hidden Door is in the directory because it described as hidden, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at The Hidden Door
The current drinks list is published on the venue’s own site — see the menu.
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.
Where The Hidden Door sits
The Hidden Door is in Marblehead, Massachusetts, in Essex County, in the Northeast of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Marblehead. If you know another, tell us.
Massachusetts holds 24 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Massachusetts speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Massachusetts
Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts.
What the newspapers recorded in Massachusetts
Searching the Library of Congress run of Massachusetts newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Massachusetts:
- Springfield weekly Republican, July 28, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Springfield weekly Republican, March 1, 1923 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Springfield weekly Republican, July 19, 1923 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Springfield weekly Republican, July 26, 1923 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Hidden Door through its own website and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 257 Washington St, Marblehead, MA 01945. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Hidden Door we hold street address, official website, social accounts, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold telephone number, opening hours, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it hidden 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.