San Francisco - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

The Civic Auditorium, the oldest building in the Civic Center, occupies the south side of Civic Center Plaza. Together with its extension, Brooks Hall, constructed in 1958, the Auditorium serves the city as a conference center. The Auditorium itself seats 8,000 and was built in 1915 for the great Panama-Pacific Exhibition. The architect was Arthur Brown Jr. who also designed the City Hall (with John Bakewell), the War Memorial Opera House and the Veterans' Building.