How do you get into The Magic Garden?
We have not confirmed it. The Magic Garden 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 Magic Garden occupies the Anthony Wayne School, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 86003344. 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 86003344 · NPS nomination document
Where The Magic Garden sits
The Magic Garden is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the county of the same name, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists thirteen speakeasies and hidden bars in Philadelphia. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Philadelphia.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Magic Garden are Speakeasy Comedy Philly, about 1.2 km away, Omertà, about 2.0 km away, and JL Sullivan’s Speakeasy, about 2.9 km away.
Pennsylvania holds 71 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Pennsylvania speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania.
Planning a visit
You can reach The Magic Garden on Facebook.
What we have confirmed
For The Magic Garden we hold social accounts and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold street address, 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.