How do you get into The Velveteen Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. The Velveteen 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.
The drinks at The Velveteen Speakeasy
How the venue describes itself: “From underneath the surface, a different type of night is beginning to take shape. When you enter the Velveteen Speakeasy, you will be transported to a secret realm where art deco lines and …” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
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: Sidecar, Boulevardier, and Vieux Carré are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Velveteen Speakeasy sits
The Velveteen Speakeasy is in Stillwater, Minnesota, in Washington County, in the Midwest of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Stillwater. If you know another, tell us.
Minnesota holds 23 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Minnesota speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Minnesota
Minnesota 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 Minnesota.
What the newspapers recorded in Stillwater
Searching the Library of Congress run of Minnesota newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Stillwater:
- The prison mirror, April 20, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The prison mirror, April 7, 1927 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The prison mirror, November 23, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The prison mirror, November 25, 1926 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Sat : 5:00 PM – 12:00 AM
- Thur : 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach The Velveteen Speakeasy by phone on (651) 342-2571, through its own website, and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 123 2nd St N, Stillwater, MN 55082. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Velveteen Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold an online booking link or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy and 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.