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Toveri Tupa - Finnish Hall

CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK designated in 1979 TOVERI TUPA-FINNISH HALL August Trille, Designer, 1908 Listed on the National Register of Historic Places Toward the end of the 19th-century, a large...


CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK
designated in 1979
TOVERI TUPA-FINNISH HALL
August Trille, Designer, 1908
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Toward the end of the 19th-century, a large Finnish immigrant community was located
in west Berkeley. Together they constructed this wooden building which integrates
traditional Finnish and American vernacular elements. An auditorium with a stage, a
kitchen and dining hall, a library, and a sewing room helped make Toveri Tupa
("Comrades' Lodge") a center of community life.
Vigilante mobs vandalized the building after striking workers were fed here during
the West Coast General Strike in 1934. In 1935, ideological divisions led to the
construction of a separate Finnish Brotherhood Hall on Chestnut Street.
This building then became known as "Red Finn Hall." Sold in the 1970s,
the Hall continues in use as a cultural and community center.
Berkeley Historical Plaque Project
2000

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