How do you get into Area 1?
We have not confirmed it. Area 1 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 Area 1
How the venue describes itself: “Trendy Wood-Fired Restaurant and Scratch Bakery offering Artisanal pizzas & Local Barrington Roaster Coffee.” (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: French 75, Clover Club, and Aviation are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building and the district
Documented — Area 1 stands inside the Old Cambridgport Historic District, a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 83000820. A district listing covers a group of properties rather than a single address, so the federal record establishes the age and character of the streetscape around this venue rather than of its own walls.
National Register reference 83000820 · NPS nomination document
Where Area 1 sits
Area 1 is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in Middlesex County, in the Northeast of the United States. The city sits inside the Greater Boston metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists three speakeasies and hidden bars in Cambridge — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Massachusetts page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Area 1 are The Carriage House at Amory, about 750 m away and Cocomango Speakeasy, about 5.0 km away.
Massachusetts holds 24 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Massachusetts speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Massachusetts
Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts.
What the newspapers recorded in Massachusetts
Searching the Library of Congress run of Massachusetts newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Massachusetts:
- Springfield weekly Republican, July 28, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Springfield weekly Republican, March 1, 1923 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Springfield weekly Republican, July 19, 1923 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Springfield weekly Republican, July 26, 1923 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Area 1 by phone on (617) 758-4444, through its own website, and on Instagram, Facebook, and X.
The address is Area 4, Cambridge, MA 02139. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Area 1 we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, an online booking link, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold opening hours or a published drinks list.
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.