"This is a typical example of Alvar Aalto's early work in his home town in which he first practiced: a working-men's club, built in 1925. The accommodation inside - a meeting-room above and a restaurant below - is clearly expressed on the exterior, and the sharply punctuated wall-surfaces echo some international fashions of the 1920s. These reveal an urge towards modernism which the superficial neoclassical treatment goes some way to disguise."

— J.M. Richards. 800 Years of Finnish Architecture. Vancouver: David and Charles, 1978. p142.