<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_City_Hall" class="extiw" title="w:San Francisco City Hall">San Francisco City Hall</a></b>, located in the two square blocks between Polk, Grove and McAllister Streets and Van Ness Avenue in the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Civic_Center,_San_Francisco" title="Category:Civic Center, San Francisco">Civic Center</a> neighborhood of San Francisco, California, was built in 1915 as a replacement for the previous City Hall, completed in 1899, which was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire.  The current building was designed by Arthur Brown, Jr., of Bakewell &amp; Brown, in the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Beaux-Arts_architecture" title="Category:Beaux-Arts architecture">Beaux-Arts style</a>, as part of the "City Beautiful" movement, and to anchor a revitalized Civic Center.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Beyond_My_Ken" title="User:Beyond My Ken">Beyond My Ken</a>
CC BY-SA 4.0
<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>