How do you get into The Jury Room?
We have not confirmed it. The Jury Room 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: Mary Pickford, El Presidente, and Hotel Nacional Special are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Jury Room sits
The Jury Room is in Columbus, Ohio, in Franklin County, in the Midwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists ten speakeasies and hidden bars in Columbus. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Columbus.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Jury Room are The Speakeasy, about 400 m away, Speak Easy, about 1.2 km away, and Sotto Terra at The Sanctuary, about 2.3 km away.
Ohio holds 54 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Ohio speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Ohio
Ohio 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 Ohio.
What the newspapers recorded in Ohio
Searching the Library of Congress run of Ohio newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Ohio:
- The toiler, February 13, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, June 17, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, December 31, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, November 4, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Jury Room by phone on (614) 591-4526, through its own website, and on X and Facebook.
The address is 22 E Mound St, Columbus, OH 43215. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Jury Room we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold 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 room rather than a bar 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.