Once the bar was reassembled, the former servants’ recreation room had never looked better.
Little wooden tables and chairs padded with tapestries completed the picture. Once the design for the Bull & Finch’s 750 square feet of space was completed, British craftsmen assembled the African Oak and stained Jacobean walnut bar, beams, drink rails, and spindles so that they could be reassembled once they reached Boston. Paul Hughes, whom had experience in designing pubs in Montreal for English breweries in much the same way Schlitz did so with Schuba’s and Southport Lanes in Chicago. So, when they weren’t able to ship an actual English pub back to the States piece by piece (none for sale, bastards!), they naturally hired a Canadian to design it instead (read: hmmm). The two wanted to give this new bar an authentic English pub-like feel. Kershaw and Veasy’s original plan for the mansion was to turn the building into a “traveling businessman’s club,” but there was only enough money to build a pub (thank God for that). The Hampshire House started life as a mansion owned by the Thayer family. The Hampshire House was purchased in the Fall of 1968 by owners Kershaw and Veasy. While the fictional “Cheers” has been around since 1895, the Bull & Finch has only been around since 1969. For those less observant, or for those less familiar with the show, a Cheers sign is mounted on the black, wrought iron railing and the brick wall behind it, both with that golden logo and hand pointing to the Bull & Finch entrance. Cheers fans will instantly recognize the white stone facade with its three white awnings. A yellow and black Cheers flag mounted on the hotel’s red brick exterior waves next to an American flag like a beacon for visitors and regulars alike. The Bull & Finch Pub is located on the garden level of the Hampshire House Hotel. Cheers has since been taken off the air, but the Bull & Finch Pub continues to attract 500,000 tourists a year, while maintaining its notable, friendly neighborhood atmosphere. For beer lovers and bar aficionados, the Bull & Finch stands up as a great pub, even without its television legacy by having all the wood, bartender witticisms, Boston memorabilia, and Cheers merchandise that one could hope for.
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For fans of Cheers, the Bull & Finch is a major tourist attraction where one can revel in their favorite TV sitcom by having a beer and purchasing a wide variety of tchotchkes with “Cheers” emblazoned on them. As the inspiration for the tremendously popular TV show Cheers, the Bull & Finch Pub is one of the best known bars in America.
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