How do you get into The Secret Lounge & Nightclub?
We have not confirmed it. The Secret Lounge & Nightclub is in the directory because it described as secret, 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: Sazerac, Ward Eight, and Scofflaw are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — The Secret Lounge & Nightclub occupies the Vieux Carre Squares, Rouzan Residence, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 66000377. 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 66000377 · NPS nomination document
Where The Secret Lounge & Nightclub sits
The Secret Lounge & Nightclub is in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Orleans Parish, in the Deep South of the United States.
Our directory currently lists five speakeasies and hidden bars in New Orleans. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in New Orleans.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Secret Lounge & Nightclub are Potions Speakeasy, about 250 m away, Melange Speakeasy Bar, about 1.1 km away, and The Original Nite Cap, about 1.4 km away.
Louisiana holds 17 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Louisiana speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Louisiana
Louisiana 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 Louisiana.
What the newspapers recorded in New Orleans
Searching the Library of Congress run of Louisiana newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from New Orleans:
- The herald, October 19, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Secret Lounge & Nightclub on Facebook.
The address is 550 Bourbon St, New Orleans, LA 70130-2106. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Secret Lounge & Nightclub we hold street address, social accounts, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold telephone number, official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a lounge and calls it secret.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a lounge.