United Nations Plaza
The UN Charter was signed in the Civic Center in 1945, and this plaza was constructed in honor of its ideology and is ironically over the site of the original San Francisco City Cemetery. Designed by architect Lawrence Halprin, and completed in 1975, this is a three acre red-bricked pedestrian plaza. Brick columns inscribed with UN members country names line the plaza, and the UN Fountain sits at its center. Intended to be a visual gateway to the Civic Center, it is often habituated by the city's homeless, but has a compact and diverse Farmers' Market on Wednesdays and Sundays.
- Wheelchair accessible
- Address
- 1140 Market St
- Getting there
- at Market St and Hyde St
- Phone
- +14156749701
Listing from Wikivoyage: San Francisco/Civic Center-Tenderloin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Location and details from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Also listed in Overture Maps open data.
Updated 27 Sept 2026. Something wrong? Tell us.