In 1904 , Harrison was elected as a Director and subsequently Vice-President of the Association for the Improvement and Adornment of San Francisco . Daniel H. Burnham , the American architect and urban planner , was invited to prepare a plan , which he completed in September 1905 , and which was accepted by Mayor Eugene Schmitz . The plan was abandoned after the San Francisco earthquake the following year
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1906 San Francisco earthquake
William Greer Harrison