Socialist Party Opens Grand Hall on Rockefeller Avenue
Organizers lease the second floor of the new Dolton-Weaver building for a major new hub of civic activity.
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The Socialists of the city are to have a headquarters of their own, having leased the second floor of the new Dolton-Weaver building on Rockefeller Avenue. They will have a large auditorium for public gatherings, office and lodge rooms. The state secretary will have his office there and the Commonwealth office will also be located in the building. Tomorrow evening the new headquarters will be opened with a grand ball under the auspices of the city central committee. Wagner's orchestra will furnish the music and tickets of admission will be fifty cents for gentlemen, ladies free. The main hall will be the second largest from point of floor space in the city.
“The main hall will be the second largest from point of floor space in the city.”
Everett in 1912 was a hotbed of radical labor politics, and the establishment of a large socialist hall signaled the movement's institutional permanence in the city. While the political labels have evolved, the quest for physical 'third spaces' where citizens can organize independently of mainstream power structures remains a defining element of Everett's civic culture.
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