Municipal Reports
THE SAN FRANCISCO
EARTHQUAKE
AND FIRE OF APRIL 1906
Six of six pages
By Editor
The New City Hall
The old City Hall was destroyed, but not rebuilt on the old site. Instead it was
used to build San Francisco's new public library opened in 1916.
For a new City Hall and Civic Center, San Franciscans voted a
bond issue, insuring that the piece meal construction used to build the old city
hall would never be used again. The City Hall was built a block away.
Mayor Rolph had hoped it would be ready for the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition, but it was not dedicated until December 28, 1915, twenty-four days
after the Exposition closed.
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Architects; John Bakewell Jr., and Arthur Brown, Jr.,