San Francisco City Hall
| San Francisco City Hall | |
|---|---|
San Francisco City Hall in 2008 | |
San Francisco City Hall Location within San Francisco | |
| General information | |
| Type | Government offices |
| Architectural style | Beaux-Arts |
| Location | 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place San Francisco, California |
| Coordinates | 37°46′45″N 122°25′09″W / 37.77919°N 122.41914°W |
| Construction started | April 5, 1913[1] |
| Completed | July 28, 1916[2] |
| Cost | US$3.4 million ($106 million dollars[3] in 2016) |
| Owner | City and County of San Francisco |
| Management | Real Estate Division |
| Height | |
| Antenna spire | 93.73 m (307.5 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 5, including ground floor |
| Floor area | >46,000 m2 (500,000 sq ft) |
| Lifts/elevators | 9 (6 passenger, 3 freight) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Bakewell & Brown |
San Francisco Designated Landmark | |
| Designated | 1970[4] |
| Reference no. | 21 |
| References | |
| [5][6][7] | |
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 structure's dome is taller than that of the United States Capitol by 42 feet (13 m).[8] The present building replaced an earlier City Hall that was destroyed during the 1906 earthquake, which was two blocks from the present one.
The principal architect was Arthur Brown, Jr., of Bakewell & Brown, whose attention to the finishing details extended to the doorknobs and the typeface to be used in signage. Brown also designed the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, Veterans Building, Temple Emanuel, Coit Tower and the Federal office building at 50 United Nations Plaza.
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- ^ "City of San Francisco Designated Landmarks". City of San Francisco. Retrieved 2012-10-21.
- ^ "Emporis building ID 118739". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016.
- ^ "San Francisco City Hall". SkyscraperPage.
- ^ San Francisco City Hall at Structurae
- ^ Gosciniak, Gregor (26 June 2005). "San Francisco City Hall". CityMayors. Retrieved 2010-02-01.