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The City Hall building is also worthy of mention being an important cultural landmark. City Hall often becomes the spot of filming movies – all thanks to its magnificent neoclassical appearance. The existing building replaced the previous city hall, which was destroyed by the earthquake of 1906. Arthur Brown Jr., who also designed the already mentioned Coit Tower, was the architect during the construction. You can see the other works of the architect in the city – the War Memorial Opera House, as well as the skyscraper 50 United Nations Plaza. The City Hall is a historically interesting building: this is precisely where Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio in 1954, a strike of students against the Anti-American Committee took place here in 1960, and here in 1978, Dan White was killed Mayor George Moscone and his director Harvey Milk.

Among the fortifications of San Francisco, two more are worth highlighting – Fort Point and Fort Mason. The former was built in 1853 as an additional fort, which is designed to protect the Bay of San Francisco from the encroachments of those who decide to come to get a “gold mine”. The fortress was of great importance during the Civil War in the United States. Already by 1861, the first cannon was installed here. After the end of the war, barracks could be found here. This is another building that becomes the camera focus – for example, in the movie “Vertigo” in 1958 or in the “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” in 2014. As for the Fort Mason, it was also built as a defensive structure during the “gold rush” and was useful during the Civil War.
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