Marshall Square - Revision history

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	''Photo: California State Library''		''Photo: California State Library''

			[[Image:City Hall 1880s w Pioneer Monument AAB-7790.jpg]]

			'''City Hall 1880s with Pioneer Monument in what becomes Marshall Square.'''

			''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library''

	Designed piecemeal by seven different architects; shoddily constructed with compromised materials over a period of twenty-seven years at a cost of six million dollars; the old City Hall was a disgraceful mess, the malodorous* embodiment of municipal graft. Nine years after its completion, it was all but destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire.		Designed piecemeal by seven different architects; shoddily constructed with compromised materials over a period of twenty-seven years at a cost of six million dollars; the old City Hall was a disgraceful mess, the malodorous* embodiment of municipal graft. Nine years after its completion, it was all but destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire.

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	''Photo: California State Library''		''Photo: California State Library''

	Marshall Square was a plaza between Market Street and City Hall Avenue (originally named Park Avenue), a short street between Larkin and Leavenworth fronting the After the old City Hall was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, the design for a Marshall Square was a plaza that connected Market Street with City Hall Avenue,* a parallel frontage road for the [[Old City Hall of SF\|old City Hall]]. When the old City Hall was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, the design for a [[New City Hall\|new Civic Center]] demanded the reshaping of grid lines. City Hall Avenue was completely obliterated and Marshall Square became part of the Hyde Street extension to Market. Opened in 1926, the office building and theater at the corner of Hyde and Market is the namesake of Marshall Square, though anymore it is known only by the name of its theater, the Orpheum.		Marshall Square was a plaza that connected Market Street with City Hall Avenue,* a parallel frontage road for the [[Old City Hall of SF\|old City Hall]]. When the old City Hall was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, the design for a [[New City Hall\|new Civic Center]] demanded the reshaping of grid lines. City Hall Avenue was completely obliterated and Marshall Square became part of the Hyde Street extension to Market. Opened in 1926, the office building and theater at the corner of Hyde and Market is the namesake of Marshall Square, though anymore it is known only by the name of its theater, the Orpheum.

	''*originally named Park Avenue.''		''*originally named Park Avenue.''

Tobymarx at 08:03, 25 June 2015

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	''Photo: Bancroft Library, Jesse B. Cooke Collection''		''Photo: Bancroft Library, Jesse B. Cooke Collection''

			[[Image:Marshall-Square-Building-.jpg]]

			'''Marshall Square Building'''

			''Photo: Mark Ellinger''

	[[Image:Orpheum-.jpg]]		[[Image:Orpheum-.jpg]]

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	[[Image:Marshall-Sq 1914.jpg]]		[[Image:Marshall-Sq 1914.jpg]]

	'''Marshall Square, 1914. When this photograph was taken, Marshall Square and City Hall Avenue were little more than artifacts of former times. The old City Hall and Hall of Records had been demolished, construction of the new Civic Center was fast moving forward, and both Marshall Square and City Hall Avenue would soon disappear. The Pioneer Monument was moved to fit the east/west alignment of the revamped Civic Center, and today it stands between the new Main Library building and the Asian Art Museum at Larkin and McAllister, originally the main public library, which was built where once stood the Old City Hall. With the construction of the new Civic Center, a Federal Office Building was later erected on the site of the old Hall of Records. Empty since 2007, it faces the UN Plaza, a 2.6 acre pedestrian mall designed in 1975 by Lawrence Halprin to commemorate the 1945 signing of the UN Charter in San Francisco.'''		'''Marshall Square, 1914. When this photograph was taken, Marshall Square and City Hall Avenue were little more than artifacts of former times. The old City Hall and Hall of Records had been demolished, construction of the new Civic Center was fast moving forward, and both Marshall Square and City Hall Avenue would soon disappear. The Pioneer Monument was moved to fit the east/west alignment of the revamped Civic Center, and today it stands between the new Main Library building and the Asian Art Museum at Larkin and McAllister, originally the main public library, which was built where once stood the Old City Hall.'''

	''Photo: Bancroft Library, Jesse B. Cooke Collection''		''Photo: Bancroft Library, Jesse B. Cooke Collection''

			With the construction of the new Civic Center, a Federal Office Building was later erected on the site of the old Hall of Records. Empty since 2007, it faces the UN Plaza, a 2.6 acre pedestrian mall designed in 1975 by Lawrence Halprin to commemorate the 1945 signing of the UN Charter in San Francisco.

	[[Image:New-City-Hall c1915-.jpg]]		[[Image:New-City-Hall c1915-.jpg]]

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	[[Image:Marshall-Sq 1914.jpg]]		[[Image:Marshall-Sq 1914.jpg]]

	'''Marshall Square, 1914. When this photograph was taken, Marshall Square and City Hall Avenue were little more than artifacts of former times. The old City Hall and Hall of Records had been demolished, construction of the new Civic Center was fast moving forward, and both Marshall Square and City Hall Avenue would soon disappear. The Pioneer Monument was moved to fit the east/west alignment of the revamped Civic Center, and today it stands between the new Main Library building~~, built approximately on the site of the leftmost building in the photograph,~~ and the Asian Art Museum at Larkin and McAllister, originally the main public library.'''		'''Marshall Square, 1914. When this photograph was taken, Marshall Square and City Hall Avenue were little more than artifacts of former times. The old City Hall and Hall of Records had been demolished, construction of the new Civic Center was fast moving forward, and both Marshall Square and City Hall Avenue would soon disappear. The Pioneer Monument was moved to fit the east/west alignment of the revamped Civic Center, and today it stands between the new Main Library building and the Asian Art Museum at Larkin and McAllister, originally the main public library, which was built where once stood the Old City Hall. With the construction of the new Civic Center, a Federal Office Building was later erected on the site of the old Hall of Records. Empty since 2007, it faces the UN Plaza, a 2.6 acre pedestrian mall designed in 1975 by Lawrence Halprin to commemorate the 1945 signing of the UN Charter in San Francisco.'''

	''Photo: Bancroft Library, Jesse B. Cooke Collection''		''Photo: Bancroft Library, Jesse B. Cooke Collection''

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	'''New City Hall, circa 1915. ~~In the background is~~ the new Civic Auditorium. Note the appearance of the Civic Center Plaza.'''		'''New City Hall, circa 1915. Looking south from Larkin and McAllister, the new Civic Auditorium is in the background to the left. Note the appearance of the Civic Center Plaza.'''

	''Source: San Francisco History Center, S.F. Public Library (R.J. Waters & Co.)''		''Source: San Francisco History Center, S.F. Public Library (R.J. Waters & Co.)''