How do you get into Bishop Manor?
We have not confirmed it. Bishop Manor 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.
Where Bishop Manor sits
Our record places Bishop Manor in the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, in the Northeast of the United States. The source data carries coordinates and a county or region but no municipality, which usually means an address outside an incorporated city, or a record that was never given one. The map pin is the reliable part.
Connecticut holds eight listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Connecticut speakeasy guide.
If you know which town Bishop Manor is in, tell us and we will place it properly.
Prohibition in Connecticut
Connecticut 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.
Connecticut was one of only two states that never ratified the Eighteenth Amendment. National prohibition applied here regardless, and enforcement was correspondingly unenthusiastic.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Connecticut.
What the newspapers recorded in Connecticut
Searching the Library of Congress run of Connecticut newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Connecticut:
- The Bridgeport times and evening farmer, September 1, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Bridgeport times and evening farmer, December 2, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Bridgeport times and evening farmer, February 18, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Bridgeport times and evening farmer, June 12, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Bishop Manor on Facebook.
What we have confirmed
For Bishop Manor we hold social accounts. We do not yet hold street address, telephone number, official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
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.