Civic Auditorium

1913-1915; W. Hegemann Collection, Gift of GR Collins and RC Weinberg 1973; (OVER); Oakland Civic Auditorium: "This building of steel, granite and concrete was erected by the City of Oakland 1913-1915. The structure is 198 by 400 feet; it contains a complete theater seating 1989; the auditorium proper seats 3728 in the balcony, 3958 on the main floor, 508 in the boxes. The arena floor is 117 by 212 without boxes, 96 by 212 with boxes. The auditorium contains many other rooms, the largest of which are the art gallery, 36 by 109; ball room , 39-by 78, and two committee rooms, 22 by 60 and 24 by 30 respectively. Cost $1,000,000. This costly monument of civic enterprise with its simple form like a great tent of concrete- a real structural form rejecting classical masquerade or gingerbread - may become the nucleus of the future civic center."; W. Hegemann, Report on a City Plan for the Municipalities of Oakland and Berkley (1915), p. 146.