emstrongThe Spirit of Detroit/strong/em is a city monument with a large bronze statue created by a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Fredericks" target="_blank"Marshall Fredericks/a and located at the a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Young" target="_blank"Coleman A. Young/a a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_A._Young_Municipal_Center" target="_blank"Municipal Center/a on a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodward_Avenue" target="_blank"Woodward Avenue/a in a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit,_Michigan" target="_blank"Detroit/a, a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan" target="_blank"Michigan/a, a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" target="_blank"USA/a.br/ It was commissioned in 1955 for a cost of $58,000 (equivalent to $518,542 today), and dedicated in 1958. In its left hand, the large seated figure holds a gilt a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze" target="_blank"bronze/a sphere emanating rays to symbolize a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God" target="_blank"God/a. The people in the figure's right hand are a family group. The 26-foot (7.9 m) sculpture was the largest cast a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_statue" target="_blank"bronze statue/a since the a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance" target="_blank"Renaissance/a when it was first installed. It was cast in Oslo, Norway.a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_Detroit#cite_note-MarshallFredericks-1" target="_blank"[1]/aa href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_Detroit#cite_note-2" target="_blank"[2]/a