On the main floor of the great rotunda, a massive marble staircase sweeps up to the lavishly decorated Chamber of the Board of Supervisors. This looks like an ideal setting for a New Year's Eve Ball. In fact, during our tour, staff of the San Francisco Ballet were setting up for that evening's Ballet Gala. Not only do diners and dancers have this immense space with noble balconies overlooking the festivities for their frolics. But there are also two huge Light-Courts on the east and west sides of the rotunda.
Citizens can pay city bills and fees here.
And former courtrooms have been refitted as venues for public hearings. Jr. They were both known for their mastery of Parisian Beaux Arts style. Brown was also architect of the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House and the Veterans Building, which stand nobly across Van Ness Avenue from City Hall. The ensemble of these magnificent civic buildings has been regarded as one of the most splendid Beaux Arts achievements outside Europe. Carey and Company, preservation architects, took great pains to ensure accurate historic restoration of the exteriors and interiors.