Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . n was made for extending Grove street through to MarshallSquare, and opening up a vista to the Civic Center from Marketstreet by the extension of Fulton and Leavenworth streets. Plans for a City Hall having been adopted in an architecturalcompetition, ground was broken for the building on April 5, cornerstone was laid on October 25th, during the Portola Festi- ACHII-:\EMENTS OF THE ADMINISTRATION 13 val of 1913. The building will be practically completed before theend of 1915. It will cost $3,500,000, and will be one of the finestcity halls
Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . n was made for extending Grove street through to MarshallSquare, and opening up a vista to the Civic Center from Marketstreet by the extension of Fulton and Leavenworth streets. Plans for a City Hall having been adopted in an architecturalcompetition, ground was broken for the building on April 5, cornerstone was laid on October 25th, during the Portola Festi- ACHII-:\EMENTS OF THE ADMINISTRATION 13 val of 1913. The building will be practically completed before theend of 1915. It will cost $3,500,000, and will be one of the finestcity halls in the United States, set upon a square and harmonizingwith other public buildings in a Civic Center which can not beequaled in beauty by any other city except Washington. Anotherof this group of public buildings is the Auditorium, costing $1,210,000,of which $1,000,000 was expended in its erection by the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company as a permanent gift tothe people of San Francisco and a reminder of the great Exposition. CONSTRUCTION OF VAN NESS AVENUE MUNICIPAL RAILWAY of 19L-^. This building is the largest municipal auditorium in thecountry and will be the meeting place of many important conventionsto be held in San Francisco in 1915. Plans are going forward for the erection of a Library, State build-ing and other similar structures, to be grouped about the central squareof the Civic Center. A\ater. while being one of the greatest needs of San Francisco,has also constituted one of its most difficult problems. For thirteenyears the city had been bending every endeavor to obtain from theFederal Government a grant of rights in the Hetch Fletchy Valleyof the Yosemite Xational Park, such as would enable it to constructa water system adequate for all time to come, and providing thepurest water to be had. In this endeavor, as in others, the Rolphadministration was so fortunate as to be crowned with success. 14 Municipal Blue Book of San Francisco Mayor Rolph, Ci
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