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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:30:00

The United Nations charter was drafted under this roof, and Japanese sovereignty was restored on its stage - not bad for a building whose day job is Puccini. The War Memorial Opera House, at 301 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco's Civic Center, opened on October 15, 1932 with Tosca. Architect Arthur Brown Jr. - the hand behind City Hall across the street - designed the Beaux-Arts monument to the city's First World War dead, one of the last great classical public buildings raised in America, its ...