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San Francisco City Hall is the seat of government for the City and County of San Francisco, California. Re-opened in 1915 in its open space area in the city's Civic Center , it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the 1880s to 1917.
San Francisco's Civic Center is one of the nation's most successful examples of the City Beautiful movement. [3] In 1927, the government allocated $2.5 million for the Federal Building's design and construction, although final costs reached a total of $3 million. San Francisco city officials donated a site in 1930.
Photograph of Civic Center with Civic Auditorium and San Francisco City Hall (under construction) in the background, circa 1916. After San Francisco was selected in 1911 to host the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition, numerous civic improvements were proposed, and a commission was set up to judge entries for a City Hall design ...
San Francisco Bay Area portal; Lindsay, Georgia (July 2017). "Bricks, branding, and the everyday: Defining greatness at the United Nations Plaza in San Francisco". International Journal of Architectural Research: ArchNet-IJAR. 11 (2): 123– 136. doi: 10.26687/archnet-ijar.v11i2.1159. direct URL Archived 2018-07-21 at the Wayback Machine; Roman ...
The first permanent San Francisco City Hall was completed in 1898 on a triangular-shaped plot in what later became Civic Center, bounded by Larkin, McAllister, and Market, after a protracted construction effort that had started in 1871; although the constructors had promised to complete work within two years, "honest graft" was an accepted ...
Halliburton planned to move its headquarters to Houston in 2002. [89] Halliburton, which signed its lease to occupy a portion of 5 Houston Center in Downtown Houston in 2002, [90] moved its headquarters there by July 2003. [91] Halliburton occupied 26,000 square feet (2,400 m 2) of space on the 24th floor in 5 Houston Center. [86]
Civic Center/UN Plaza station (often Civic Center station) is a combined BART and Muni Metro rapid transit station in the Market Street subway in downtown San Francisco. Located under Market Street between 7th Street and 8th Street, it is named for the Civic Center neighborhood and the adjacent United Nations Plaza. The three-level station has ...
This is a list of foreign diplomatic missions located in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States.As of November 2024, the area hosts 41 consulates-general from 41 countries (Mexico has two). 38 are located in the city of San Francisco; there is one each in Palo Alto, Burlingame, and San Jose.