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286: 26: 298: 1293: 1479: 1305: 431: 365:, residents there blamed the tall tower of the Hall of Justice, which they claimed "had aroused the evils of the air". Work was completed in 1900 and the first official business was conducted there on September 19, although the upper floor jail remained unfinished; despite this, the 438:
The San Francisco Hall of Justice houses Jail #3 and Jail #4 for the San Francisco County Superior Court criminal division. It formerly served as the location of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and city morgue; those offices moved to a new facility in the city's
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derided the slow pace of work as "The Haul of Justice", concluding the contractor had underbid the job and was intent on delaying the completion by ordering numerous changes; a grand jury would later ask Mayor
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wrote "the building is the best San Francisco ever had in its history". It was heavily damaged following the April
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to "grant no further extension" of the contractors after October 1 of that year. Also that year, when
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The second Hall of Justice (1912–61) was rebuilt at the same site to a design by city architect
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Aerial view of the San Francisco Hall of Justice complex. View facing northwest, with
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Department of Public Works, Bureaus of Engineering & Architecture (August 1987).
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The current Hall of Justice at 850–880 Bryant Street served as the
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San Francisco Bureau of Architecture (1985 Rooftop gymnasium)
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is the third building to serve as the headquarters of the
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Aerial view of the San Francisco Hall of Justice building. It is a multistory building that occupies the entire length of a city block along Bryant Street, between 7th and Harriet; the Dwight D. Eisenhower Freeway (Interstate 80) has its western terminus near and curves around the back of the building. There is a prominent black asphalt helipad on the roof.
Bryant Street
I-80
Coordinates
37°46′32″N 122°24′14″W / 37.77544°N 122.40394°W / 37.77544; -122.40394
reinforced concrete
John Carl Warnecke
San Francisco
San Francisco Police Department
San Francisco County Superior Court


1906 San Francisco earthquake
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Kearny
Washington
Jenny Lind
City Hall
Civic Center
San Francisco Call
James D. Phelan
San Francisco Board of Supervisors
bubonic plague
Chinatown
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Newton J. Tharp
The Lineup
Ironside
Raymond Burr
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