San Francisco City Hall is the seat of government for the City and County of San Francisco , California . Re-opened in 1915 in its open space area in the city 's Civic Center , it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the 1880s to 1917 . The structure 's dome is taller than that of the United States Capitol by 42 feet . The present building replaced an earlier City Hall that was destroyed during the 1906 earthquake , which was two blocks from the present one . It was bounded by Larkin Street , McAllister Street , and City Hall Avenue ( a street , now built over , which ran from the corner of Grove and Larkin to the corner of McAllister and Leavenworth ) , largely where the current public library and U.N. Plaza stand today
1906 earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
San Francisco City Hall