How do you get into Cellar Speakeasy Lounge?
We have not confirmed it. Cellar Speakeasy Lounge 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: French 75, Clover Club, and Aviation are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — Cellar Speakeasy Lounge occupies the Gust Brothers’ Store, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 02000834. 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 02000834 · NPS nomination document
Where Cellar Speakeasy Lounge sits
Cellar Speakeasy Lounge is in Baraboo, Wisconsin, in Sauk County, in the Midwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Baraboo — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Wisconsin page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Cellar Speakeasy Lounge are The Relish Tray Bistro and Speakeasy, a few doors away.
Wisconsin holds 44 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Wisconsin speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Wisconsin
Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin.
What the newspapers recorded in Baraboo
Searching the Library of Congress run of Wisconsin newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Baraboo:
- Baraboo weekly news, May 28, 1925 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Cellar Speakeasy Lounge by phone on (608) 355-1053 and through its own website.
The address is 106 4th Ave, Baraboo, WI 53913. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Cellar Speakeasy Lounge we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because its own name places it below street level, calls it a lounge, and calls it a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.