Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . 66 MuNMCiiAL Blue Bo(ik of San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO CIVIC CENTER SAN FRANCISCOS Civic Center, which will form a group of publicbuildings without equal in the United States, lies in an irregularrectangle bounded by \^an Ness avenue, McAllister, Grove andHayes streets, and City Hall avenue. A bond issue of $8,800,000, votedMarch 28, 1912, provided for its construction. The lands alone cost$4,720,069. Ground was broken for the $3,500,000 City Hall April 5,1913. Construction is now well advanced. Its crowning feature, animmense dome, is 112 feet in
Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . 66 MuNMCiiAL Blue Bo(ik of San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO CIVIC CENTER SAN FRANCISCOS Civic Center, which will form a group of publicbuildings without equal in the United States, lies in an irregularrectangle bounded by \^an Ness avenue, McAllister, Grove andHayes streets, and City Hall avenue. A bond issue of $8,800,000, votedMarch 28, 1912, provided for its construction. The lands alone cost$4,720,069. Ground was broken for the $3,500,000 City Hall April 5,1913. Construction is now well advanced. Its crowning feature, animmense dome, is 112 feet in diameter and 300 feet high, or ten feethigher than the Capital dome at Washington. The Auditorium Buildingcovers 99,849 square feet and seats 10,000 in its main hall, which iscovered by a great octagonal dome 190 feet high. Both buildings facea spacious and artistic plaza, as will the $1,000,000 State Building. APublic Library of e(|ual cost will be built, and other monumental civicstructures. Bureau of Architecture 67
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