San Francisco City Hall is the seat of government for the City and County of San Francisco, a Beaux-Arts landmark in the Civic Center known for its soaring dome and role in the city’s post-1906 earthquake recovery. 
 
Often called the “People’s Palace,” it houses the offices of the mayor, the Board of Supervisors, and key city departments, and offers public services such as marriage licenses, civil ceremonies, and vital records. The building is a National Historic Landmark and a centrepiece of San Francisco’s Civic Center, the most complete example in the United States of the City Beautiful movement’s municipal ensemble. 
 
The present City Hall was built between 1912 and 1916 to replace an earlier, grand Classical Revival city hall designed by Augustus Laver, which was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and subsequent fire. 
 
Interesting facts...
One of the most striking hidden histories is that City Hall sits beside and  over the site of San Francisco’s first municipal graveyard, Yerba Buena Cemetery. It  operated in the mid‑19th century before the city moved burials to what became Colma.  When the Civic Center was laid out after the 1906 earthquake, the old cemetery grounds were built over, but many graves were never fully removed or documented.
 
Local historians and journalists have linked this to reports of paranormal activity in and around City Hall: night staff and security have described unexplained footsteps, voices in empty corridors, chairs rattling, and faucets turning on and off by themselves.  All a bit like the film Poltergeist.
 
Location: 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA