High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! San Francisco City Hall, re-opened in 1915, in its open space area in the city`s Civic Center, 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 the fifth largest in the world. The present building replaced an earlier City Hall that was completely destroyed during the 1906 earthquake.