The current City Hall building is a replacement for the original building , which was designed by Augustus Laver and Thomas Stent and completed in 1899 after 27 years of planning and construction . The original city hall was a much larger building which also contained a smaller extension which contained the city 's Hall of Records . Noted city planner and architect Daniel Burnham published a plan in 1905 to redesign the city , including a new Civic Center complex around City Hall , but the plans were shelved in the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , which destroyed the 1899 City Hall
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
San Francisco City Hall