City Hall - SAN FRANCISCO-OPOLY - San Francisco, CA
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N 37° 46.756 W 122° 25.152
10S E 551145 N 4181483
The San Fransisco City Hall is one of the most iconic buildings in the city.
Waymark Code: WMW02N
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 06/19/2017
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Taken from Wikipedia, "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.[5] The present building replaced an earlier City Hall that was destroyed during the 1906 earthquake, which was two blocks from the present one. It was bounded by Larkin Street, McAllister Street, and City Hall Avenue (a street, now built over, which ran from the corner of Grove and Larkin to the corner of McAllister and Leavenworth), largely where the current Public Library and U.N. Plaza stand today."
Taken from the book, "1. Dominating the Civic Center, the City Hall, Van Ness Ave., Polk, McAllister, and Grove Sts., lifts its gold-embellished dome 308 feet above the ground-16 feet 2 5/8 inches higher than the National Capitol in Washington, D.C., as Mayor James Rolph used to boast. It was Rolph who broke ground for the new structure with a silver spade April 5, 1913. Second unit of the Civic Center to be completed, the City Hall was dedicated December 28, 1915, having cost $3,500,000. In the great rotunda under the dome, Rolph welcomed the world receiving a long procession of celebrated visitors: the King and Queen of Belgium, Queen Marie of Rumania, Eamon de Valera, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson. Here San Fransisco made merry all night long to celebrate the Armistice in 1918. Here the funeral of President Warren G. Harding took place in 1923, and here, in 1934 Rolph himself lay in state."
After the 1906 Earthquake destroyed much of the original city hall building, it was time to start from scratch. This new city hall building is modeled after the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC. City Hall is actually about 40 feet taller than the capitol in DC, making it one of the tallest buildings in the city at it's completion. Today, it sits in the center of the civic center, standing tribute to San Francisco's rich history and the future.
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