The current City Hall was completed in 1915, in time for the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The current civic center was planned by a group of local architects, chaired by John Galen Howard. ![]() A temporary city hall was put up on Market Street, but planning for a more permanent structure and civic center did not take place for several years. Although the noted architect and urban planner Daniel Burnham had provided the city with plans for a neo-classical Civic Center shortly before the 1906 earthquake, his plans were never carried out. The Civic Center was built in the early 20th century after an earlier city hall was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Civic Center is bounded by the Tenderloin neighborhood on the north and east and by the Hayes Valley neighborhood on the west Market Street separates it from the South of Market or "SoMa" neighborhood. The Civic Center is bounded by Market Street on the south, Franklin Street on the west, Turk Street on the north, and Leavenworth and Seventh streets on the east. The San Francisco Civic Center was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places on October 10, 1978. It is also where the 1951 Treaty of San Francisco (the peace treaty that officially ended the Pacific War with the Empire of Japan, which had surrendered in 1945) was signed. ![]() The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium (formerly the Exposition Auditorium), the United Nations Charter was signed in the Veterans Building's Herbst Theatre in 1945, leading to the creation of the United Nations. It has two large plazas ( Civic Center Plaza and United Nations Plaza) and a number of buildings in classical architectural style. The Civic Center in San Francisco, California, is an area located a few blocks north of the intersection of Market Street and Van Ness Avenue that contains many of the city's largest government and cultural institutions. ![]() Roughly bounded by Golden Gate Ave., 7th, Franklin, Hayes, and Market Sts., San Francisco, California ![]() San Francisco Civic Center, looking west along UN Plaza to City Hall
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