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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.
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 ...
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 ...
To achieve the high level of craftsmanship specified for the interior, skilled artisans were brought from Italy, [2] who reportedly later worked on San Simeon. [3] Groundbreaking took place in 1897 and the building opened in 1905 to acclaim as "a post office that's a palace". [2] On April 18, 1906, an earthquake devastated San Francisco.
Fresco by Diego Riviera in the Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute 295 San Francisco Eagle Bar: 396–398 12th Street October 29, 2021 296 Casa Sanchez Building: 2778 24th Street February 11, 2022 297 Crocker National Bank Building: 1–25 Montgomery Street March 14, 2022 298 "Allegory of California" fresco 155 Sansome Street ...
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 ...
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.
The Commercial Union Assurance Building is a 94 m (308 ft), 16-story office building located in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The building was completed in 1921 and is the same height of the San Francisco City Hall. [3] The much taller 555 California Street is to the west of this Renaissance Revival styled building.