Swizzle Stick Drink Stirrer, The Barn 1200 Beacon Street Hotel Brookline, White Rooster, Vintage 1950s

A 1950s swizzle stick from The Barn, the cocktail lounge at the 1200 Beacon Street Hotel in Brookline, Massachusetts — a rustic-themed relic from a bygone Boston-area motor hotel.

• Venue: The Barn, 1200 Beacon Street Hotel, Brookline, Massachusetts
• Materials: Hard plastic, white
• Dimensions: 6 inches long
• Era: 1950s–1960s (estimated)
• Condition: Good vintage condition. Lettering shows lots of wear and is faint. Light marks and stains as acceptable due to age/use/wear. We have two in stock, both in similar condition. Please review all photos before purchasing, as all sales are final.

This swizzle stick is topped with a fully dimensional, sculptural rooster figure — detailed all the way around rather than flat on the back — a step up from the cartoonish figures common on many mid-century pieces, with "The Barn" and "1200 Beacon Street Hotel" lettered along the flat stem.

A great find for the swizzle stick collector, the Boston-area history enthusiast, or anyone drawn to mid-century motor hotel and cocktail lounge culture.

The 1200 Beacon Street Hotel operated as a mid-century motor hotel in Brookline, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, advertised in its day as "Greater Boston's finest Motor Hotel" with 170 rooms and an on-site garage. Its cocktail lounge, The Barn, leaned into a rustic, barnyard-themed identity — reflected in both this rooster design and a companion steer-head swizzle stick issued for the same lounge — offering a relaxed, countrified contrast to typical downtown hotel bars. The property has changed hands and names several times since, operating later as a Holiday Inn and today as the boutique Arcadian Hotel, but pieces like this one preserve a specific, colorful chapter of its history.

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