1884 Victorian Now a Prohibition-Themed Cocktail Bar
318 E 5th St, Marysville, OH 43040
Age
21+
Cost
$$
Cocktail bar with mid-range cocktails and small plates. House of Spirits operates as a Prohibition-era themed lounge.
Access
Limited Access
Historic Victorian home with stairs to upper floors
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Photos OK
Est. 1884 · Late-Victorian Residential Architecture · Marysville Downtown Historic District
The Castle was constructed in 1884 as a private Victorian residence in downtown Marysville, the seat of Union County in central Ohio. The two-and-a-half-story home features a rounded front porch, decorative trim, and the steep gables typical of late-nineteenth-century Ohio domestic architecture.
The building's commercial history includes operation as a bed and breakfast in the 1990s, then as Doc Henderson's Restaurant for an extended run through the early twenty-first century. After the original Doc Henderson's owner retired, the building was renovated and reopened briefly as Hinkley's. In 2019, the structure reopened as House of Spirits, a Prohibition-era themed cocktail lounge profiled by Ohio Magazine for its design and bar program.
Marysville sits roughly thirty miles northwest of Columbus and serves as a Honda manufacturing-region civic center. The Victorian home is one of several intact nineteenth-century residential structures preserved in Marysville's downtown commercial district.
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Accounts collected by Ohio Exploration Society and regional paranormal-tourism coverage describe a black shadowy figure observed by guests and staff during the building's bed-and-breakfast and restaurant phases. Reports also describe a sensation of being watched and the sound of voices near the front door at times when no one is present.
The Ohio Exploration Society's Union County entry places the most-frequent reports on the second and third floors and at a first-floor closet, which the bed-and-breakfast operators considered a focal point. The site has not been the subject of formal investigation publications; the lore appears in regional travel writing and aggregated paranormal directories rather than in named-investigator reports.
With the building now operating as House of Spirits, the cocktail bar's atmospheric Prohibition-era programming sits inside an architectural envelope where the haunted-reputation reports continue to circulate among regional ghost-tourism writers. The current operator does not promote the location as a paranormal destination.
Visit the Prohibition-era themed cocktail bar housed in the 1884 Victorian residence on East Fifth Street. The building previously operated as Doc Henderson's Restaurant and Hinkley's; House of Spirits opened in 2019 in the same architectural shell where reports of shadow figures and front-door voices have circulated since the property became a B&B in the 1990s.
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