A craft cocktail bar in a former Tucson funeral home where staff and guests report voices from empty corners
236 S Scott Ave, Tucson, AZ 85701
Research updated June 2026
Age
21+
Cost
$$
Craft cocktail and food pricing; no cover charge.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Renovated two-story building on paved downtown streets
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1928 · Former Bring Funeral Home (1928-2014) · Armory Park adaptive reuse
The building at 236 S. Scott Avenue, in Tucson's Armory Park neighborhood, operated as the Bring Funeral Home from 1928 until 2014, roughly 86 years of continuous funeral use. After the mortuary closed, developers Ron Schwabe and Marcel Dabdoub renovated the structure into a two-story commercial space, and the Owls Club craft cocktail bar opened there in November 2016.
The bar's name reaches back to the original Owls Club of the early 1900s, a social club for well-off bachelors who worked at Tucson's Southern Pacific Railroad outpost. That club commissioned a mansion from Tucson architect Henry Trost for late-running dinner parties, and was called the Owls Club because the gatherings ran into the small hours. The mansion still stands on Main Avenue and is unrelated to the funeral-home building, but the bar adopted the name and the after-dark association.
The combination that gives the venue its reputation is straightforward: a craft cocktail bar occupying a building where the dead were prepared and mourned for the better part of a century. Local coverage from the Arizona Daily Star and the University of Arizona's Daily Wildcat documented both the renovation and the ghost lore that arrived with it. The bar leans into the history rather than hiding it, treating the funeral-home past as part of the room's character.
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The lore at the Owls Club is grounded in the building's function rather than in a single named ghost. For roughly 86 years the structure served as the Bring Funeral Home, and the paranormal reputation that followed it into its bar life centers on auditory experiences: customers report hearing voices speak to them from certain corners of the room, and staff describe the same.
The Daily Wildcat's coverage framed the venue as the place in Tucson where alcoholic and ghostly spirits meet, noting that many people believe the building is haunted on the strength of these voice reports. The accounts are low-key and consistent — no violent apparition, no dramatic poltergeist activity, just the recurring sense that someone unseen is speaking from an empty part of the bar.
These reports circulate through local journalism and Tucson ghost lore rather than formal paranormal investigation, and they are inseparable from the knowledge of what the building used to be. The Owls Club does not market itself as a haunted attraction; the reputation is something the room carries on its own.
The Owls Club serves craft cocktails and food across two floors of a downtown building that operated as the Bring Funeral Home from 1928 to 2014. No reservation is needed for the bar; the venue's events page handles private bookings. Guests interested in the building's history can ask staff about the corners where voices are most often reported.
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