City Hall - City Hall information and pictures San Francisco's
City Hall : Beau-Arts Styling Architect, Arthur Brown, Jr. in a
classic, French Beau-Arts style, with a massive Dome that
remains the fifth largest dome in the world, rebuilt San
Francisco's City Hall building, originally destroyed in the 1906
earthquake. The City Hall building today, is an impressive
public building that anchors the Civic Center Plaza. The
building is quite magnificent from a distance and is worthwhile
to visit inside, to more closely examine all the ornate features
of classic Beau-Arts architecture popular in the early 1900s.
The City Hall building has the classic features of columns,
balustrades and pillars, complete with statues and decorative
painting. It is noteworthy that Arthur Brown also designed many
other landmark buildings in San Francisco such as the, Coit
Tower , and Opera House. He was trained in Paris at the L'Ecole
des Beau-Arts, the leading school of architecture for that
period, and responsible for the construct