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Civic Center, San Francisco
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Civic Center, San Francisco
The
Civic Center
in
San Francisco, California
, is an area of a few blocks north of the intersection of
Market Street
and
Van Ness Avenue
that contains many of the city's largest government and cultural institutions. It has two large plazas (Civic Center Plaza and United Nations Plaza) and a number of buildings in classical architectural style. The
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
(formerly the Exposition Auditorium), the
United Nations Charter
was signed in the War Memorial Veterans Building's
Herbst Theatre
in 1945, leading to the creation of the
United Nations
. It is also where the 1951
Treaty of San Francisco
(the
peace treaty
that officially ended the
Pacific War
with the
Empire of Japan
, which had surrendered in 1945) was signed. The San Francisco Civic Center was designated a
National Historic Landmark
in 1987, and listed in the
National Register of Historic Places
on October 10, 1978.
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