File:Historic American Buildings Survey Joseph A. Baird, Jr., Photographer Photo- 1956 ROTUNDA STAIRCASE FROM NORTHEAST - City Hall, Civic Center, San Francisco, San Francisco HABS CAL,38-SANFRA,71-2.tif

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Historic American Buildings Survey Joseph A. Baird, Jr., Photographer Photo- 1956 ROTUNDA STAIRCASE FROM NORTHEAST - City Hall, Civic Center, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
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Brown, Arthur
Blakewell, John
Title
Historic American Buildings Survey Joseph A. Baird, Jr., Photographer Photo- 1956 ROTUNDA STAIRCASE FROM NORTHEAST - City Hall, Civic Center, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
Depicted place California; San Francisco County; San Francisco
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS CAL,38-SANFRA,71-2
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: One of the most elegant civic buildings in the US. It was designed by Arthur Brown, Jr., and his executive partner, John Bukewell, Jr., after a competition held in 1912. The building was effectively begun in 1913 and completed in 1915. Its immediate genesis was the need for more satisfactory civic structures, after the scandalous collapse of the "old" City Hall in 1906, and especially during the Panama-Pacific Exposition on 1915. The present Auditorium was the first building completed and the City Hall, the second. The latter was excellently constructed of steel with a veneer of granite and fine stone on exterior and interior. Although a very conservative building, for its time, the City Hall is a modish and highly successful attempt to join the main current of Baroque Classicism and American civic architecture. Because of its superb detailing and splendid materials, and notably because of its equally fine maintenance, it has continued to be the distinguished focal point of one of America's most attractive civic complexes.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1475
  • Survey number: HABS CA-1881
  • Building/structure dates: 1915 Initial Construction
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 78000757.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca0633.photos.016937p
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Object location37° 46′ 30″ N, 122° 25′ 05.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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