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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
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Keywords:College of Osteopathic Medicine, Contemporary Art Detroit, Corktown, Derrick Williamson, Detroit, GSRT, GSRT, Great State Road Trip, Great State Road Trip, Michigan State University, Michigan State University, Popoff Clinic, Renaissance Center, Spirit of Detroit, Woodward Avenue, com, detroit, medical director, statue, street scene, urban

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