How do you get into VooDoo Saint Louis?
We have not confirmed it. VooDoo Saint Louis 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: Sidecar, Boulevardier, and Vieux Carré are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — VooDoo Saint Louis occupies the Peters Shoe Company Building, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 84002663. 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 84002663 · NPS nomination document
Where VooDoo Saint Louis sits
VooDoo Saint Louis is in St. Louis, Missouri, in the county of the same name, in the Midwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists six speakeasies and hidden bars in St. Louis. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in St. Louis.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to VooDoo Saint Louis are Thaxton Speakeasy, about 400 m away, The Roaring Twenties Complex, about 1.2 km away, and Hidden Gem, about 2.3 km away.
Missouri holds 19 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Missouri speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Missouri
Missouri 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 Missouri.
What the newspapers recorded in Missouri
Searching the Library of Congress run of Missouri newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Missouri:
- Potosi journal, May 5, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Hayti herald, May 20, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Holt County sentinel, July 23, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Hayti herald, October 14, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach VooDoo Saint Louis by phone on (314) 669-9076, through its own website, and on X.
The address is 1227 Washington Ave, St. Louis, MO 63103. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For VooDoo Saint Louis we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold 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.