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. 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.