How do you get into The Hidden King – Neighborhood Bar?
We have not confirmed it. The Hidden King – Neighborhood Bar is in the directory because it described as hidden, 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 — The Hidden King – Neighborhood Bar occupies the Germania Building Complex, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 83000893. 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 83000893 · NPS nomination document
Where The Hidden King – Neighborhood Bar sits
The Hidden King – Neighborhood Bar is in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in Washtenaw County, in the Midwest of the United States. The city sits inside the Metro Detroit metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists five speakeasies and hidden bars in Ann Arbor. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Ann Arbor.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Hidden King – Neighborhood Bar are mash, about 200 m away, The Blind Pig, about 200 m away, and The Blind Pig / 8 Ball Saloon, about 200 m away.
Michigan holds 36 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Michigan speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Michigan
Michigan did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1918, two 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, Michigan already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Michigan.
What the newspapers recorded in Michigan
Searching the Library of Congress run of Michigan newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Michigan:
- Alma record, February 19, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Charlevoix county herald, July 9, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Dearborn independent, August 28, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Alma record, April 1, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Hidden King – Neighborhood Bar by phone on (734) 545-6760 and on Facebook.
The address is 210 S Main St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Hidden King – Neighborhood Bar we hold street address, telephone number, social accounts, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it hidden.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.