San Francisco City Hall
Beaux-Arts civic landmark with a gilded dome rising higher than the US Capitol's, rebuilt after the 1906 quake.
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This guide to San Francisco City Hall centers on a rainy morning in November 1978, when Dan White, a former police officer and city supervisor who had just resigned his seat, climbed through a basement window beneath the building to avoid the metal detectors at the front doors. He had asked Mayor George Moscone to give him his old job back, and Moscone had decided to give it to someone else. The guide follows Supervisor Dianne Feinstein's role in this building on that day, and the reaction that later gathered on the steps outside these doors. Stand in the rotunda and look down the corridor toward the supervisors' offices.
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