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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 ...
Originally developed by Sheldon Gordon (co-developer of The Forum Shops at Caesars and Beverly Center), the nine-story mall opened in October 1988 as San Francisco Shopping Centre with approximately 500,000 square feet (46,000 m 2) of space, the then-largest Nordstrom store (350,000 square feet (33,000 m 2)) on the top several floors, the first spiral escalator in the United States, and a ...
The Village at Centennial Square is one of San Francisco State University's housing communities. San Francisco State University's 144.1-acre main campus is located in the southwest part of San Francisco. [1] To its north are Lowell High School and Stonestown Galleria. Parkmerced is south of the campus.
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 ...
University of the Pacific (San Francisco Campus) Private: 1851 [b] N/A Hult International Business School (San Francisco Campus) Private: Business school: 2010: N/A Presidio Graduate School: Private: Sustainable business school: 2002: 152: California Institute of Integral Studies: Private: Graduate school: 1968 [1] 1,833: University of ...
The Oceanview neighborhood is located in southern San Francisco, south of the Ingleside neighborhood and the Ocean Avenue campus of City College. It is bordered by Interstate 280 to the south and east, Lakeview Avenue to the north and Orizaba Avenue to the west.
Westminster Hall is a medieval great hall which is part of the Palace of Westminster in London, England. It was erected in 1097 for William II (William Rufus), at which point it was the largest hall in Europe. [ 1 ]
City College of San Francisco was established by the Board of Education of the San Francisco Unified School District on February 15, 1934, and officially opened on August 26, 1935, as San Francisco Junior College (SFJC). The college had no central campus at the time. [6]