How do you get into Volstead Bar?
We have not confirmed it. Volstead Bar 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 Volstead Bar
How the venue describes itself: “Handcrafted craft cocktails in the historic Green Door Building. A hidden speakeasy near Cedar Point.” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Bee’s Knees, Southside, and Last Word are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — Volstead Bar occupies the Bing’s Hotel, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 82001378. 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 82001378 · NPS nomination document
Where Volstead Bar sits
Volstead Bar is in Sandusky, Ohio, in Erie County, in the Midwest of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Sandusky. If you know another, tell us.
Ohio holds 54 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Ohio speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Ohio
Ohio 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 Ohio.
What the newspapers recorded in Ohio
Searching the Library of Congress run of Ohio newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Ohio:
- The toiler, February 13, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, June 17, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, December 31, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, November 4, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- FRI 4pm–12am
- MON 4pm–10pm
- SAT 2pm–12am
- SUN 1pm–7pm
- THU 4pm–10pm
- WED 4pm–10pm
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Volstead Bar by phone on (419) 871-0742, through its own website, and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is East Water Street, Sandusky, OH 44870. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Volstead Bar we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold 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.
Two independent open datasets, OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, both carry this venue at this location. Agreement between them is the strongest existence check we can make without visiting.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.