Originally designed as a lounge for World War I veterans, the room now serves as a performance and reception hall. The Green Room is located on the second floor of the Veterans Building.

In 1977 the theater was refurbished and renamed. In 1945 the original United Nations Charter was signed here. It is a part of the original Veterans Building and was originally named the “Veterans Auditorium”.

The Herbst Theatre, with 916 seats, is a small concert and lecture/presentation hall.

It has been the home of the San Francisco Opera since 1932, as well as the San Francisco Ballet. The War Memorial Opera House, or the Opera House, with 3,146 seats, was built in 1932 as part of the original War Memorial Building. Davies Symphony Hall, venue in the SFWMPAC. The following venues make up the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center-SFWMPAC: In 1990 the Center was chosen to host the first Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony, and this prize is now presented annually at the Center. In 1951, the Peace Treaty with Japan (commonly called 'Treaty of San Francisco'), formally ending World War II hostilities with Japan, was signed in the Opera House. On June 26, 1945, the United Nations Charter was signed in the Veterans Building's Herbst Theatre by the group of 50 founding nations, following the two-month-long United Nations conference in the Opera House. Davies Symphony Hall opened, on a site on Van Ness across the sidestreet from the Opera House, as part of the SFWMPAC complex.

The upper floors of the Veterans Building housed the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (formerly the San Francisco Museum of Art) from 1935 to 1994. The project resulted in the construction of a matched pair of buildings across a formal courtyard park: the War Memorial Opera House and the multi-purpose Veterans Building next door. It was designed by Arthur Brown Jr in 1927-1928, and is one of the last Beaux-Arts style structures erected in the United States. The 'War Memorial' name commemorates all the people who served in the First World War, which ended seven years before the project commenced. The complex was developed in the 1920s on two blocks on Van Ness Avenue facing San Francisco City Hall from the west. ( October 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.

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