How do you get into The Historic Vermillion Victorian?
We have not confirmed it. The Historic Vermillion Victorian 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: Adonis, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — The Historic Vermillion Victorian occupies the Andrew O. Huseboe House, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 88000569. 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 88000569 · NPS nomination document
Where The Historic Vermillion Victorian sits
The Historic Vermillion Victorian is in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in Minnehaha County, in the Great Plains of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Sioux Falls — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the South Dakota page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Historic Vermillion Victorian are Myrtle’s Fur Vault & Bar, about 750 m away.
South Dakota holds three listed venues in this directory. See them all on our South Dakota speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in South Dakota
South Dakota did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1917, three 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, South Dakota already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in South Dakota.
What the newspapers recorded in South Dakota
Searching the Library of Congress run of South Dakota newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from South Dakota:
- The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter, January 23, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Madison daily leader, March 6, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Tabor independent, April 29, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Madison daily leader, March 23, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Historic Vermillion Victorian on Facebook.
The address is 223 S Prairie Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57104-3536. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Historic Vermillion Victorian we hold street address, social accounts, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold telephone number, official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because 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.