How do you get into Port Edwards Boutique and Craft Mall?
We have not confirmed it. Port Edwards Boutique and Craft Mall 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: Adonis, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Port Edwards Boutique and Craft Mall sits
Port Edwards Boutique and Craft Mall is in Port Edwards, Wisconsin, in Wood County, in the Midwest of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Port Edwards. If you know another, tell us.
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 Wisconsin
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 Wisconsin:
- The Telegraph-courier, November 4, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Milwaukee leader, July 26, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Grant County herald, December 14, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Milwaukee leader, November 11, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Port Edwards Boutique and Craft Mall by phone on (715) 384-3161 and through its own website.
The address is 241 Market Ave, Port Edwards, WI 54469. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Port Edwards Boutique and Craft Mall we hold street address, telephone number, and official website. We do not yet hold social accounts, 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.