How do you get into Speakeasy Jazz?
We have not confirmed it. Speakeasy Jazz 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: French 75, Sidecar, and Clover Club are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — Speakeasy Jazz occupies the Nissen Building, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 04000907. 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 04000907 · NPS nomination document
Where Speakeasy Jazz sits
Speakeasy Jazz is in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in Forsyth County, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Winston-Salem. If you know another, tell us.
North Carolina holds 42 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our North Carolina speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in North Carolina
North Carolina did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1909, eleven 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, North Carolina already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in North Carolina.
What the newspapers recorded in North Carolina
Searching the Library of Congress run of North Carolina newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from North Carolina:
- Roanoke Rapids herald, September 30, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The independent, June 2, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The independent, May 8, 1925 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The independent, March 25, 1927 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Speakeasy Jazz through its own website.
The address is 410 W 4th St, Winston-Salem, NC 27101-2831. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speakeasy Jazz we hold street address, official website, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold telephone number, social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because its own name names jazz and calls it a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a restaurant.