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Location: BELMONT STREET AND 35TH STREET

City: BELLAIRE

State: Ohio

Zip Code: 43906

Type of Memorial: Statues War or Military Related

Year Dedicated: 1926

Access: Public

Wars Commemorated: WORLD WAR I

Photograph By: WILLIAM FISCHER, JR.


THIS STATUE IS KNOWN AS “THE SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN DOUGHBOY”, DESIGNED TO HONOR THE VETERANS AND CASUALTIES OF WORLD WAR I. MASS PRODUCED DURING THE 1920’S AND 1930’S FOR COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. ITS TITLE IS OFTEN SHORTENED TO “THE DOUGHBOY.”


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