How do you get into Speakeasy Cafe?
We have not confirmed it. Speakeasy Cafe 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: Blood and Sand, Bobby Burns, and Rob Roy are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — Speakeasy Cafe occupies the Richardson Building, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 80000387. 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 80000387 · NPS nomination document
Where Speakeasy Cafe sits
Speakeasy Cafe is in Rutland, Vermont, in the county of the same name, in the Northeast of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Rutland. If you know another, tell us.
Vermont holds three listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Vermont speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Vermont
Vermont 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 Vermont.
What the newspapers recorded in Vermont
Searching the Library of Congress run of Vermont newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Vermont:
- The Brattleboro daily reformer, January 16, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Barre daily times, July 13, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Orleans County monitor, August 4, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Brattleboro daily reformer, January 19, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Speakeasy Cafe by phone on (802) 855-8167, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 31 Center St, Rutland, VT 05701. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speakeasy Cafe 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 its own name calls it a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a cafe.