How do you get into The Gardener’s Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. The Gardener’s Speakeasy 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.
Where The Gardener’s Speakeasy sits
The Gardener’s Speakeasy is in Rogers, Arkansas, in Benton County, in the Deep South of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Rogers. If you know another, tell us.
Arkansas holds eight listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Arkansas speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Arkansas
Arkansas did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1915, five years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, Arkansas already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Arkansas.
What the newspapers recorded in Arkansas
Searching the Library of Congress run of Arkansas newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Arkansas:
- Pine Bluff daily graphic, March 20, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Prescott daily news, April 12, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Pine Bluff daily graphic, May 16, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Prescott daily news, June 4, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Gardener’s Speakeasy through its own website and on Facebook.
The address is 1302 N 24th St, Rogers, AR 72756. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Gardener’s Speakeasy we hold street address, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold telephone number, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy and 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.