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Golden Boy, officially Spirit of Communication, is a gilded statue by Evelyn Beatrice Longman, completed in 1916 for AT&T. After stops in New York and New Jersey it reached Dallas in 2009 and now stands outdoors at AT&T's Discovery District.
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Golden Boy (Spirit of Communication)
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Site-level location · 32.7864° N, 96.8003° W
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Golden Boy is the nickname of AT&T's Spirit of Communication, a gilded winged figure by Evelyn Beatrice Longman, who titled it The Genius of Electricity, according to Athenaeum Review in 2022. AT&T's Discovery District website gives 1916 as the year of completion.
Mr. Local History, a community history site, says it was commissioned in 1914 for the Western Union Building at 195 Broadway, New York, later stood in AT&T's Madison Avenue lobby and at sites in New Jersey, and reached Dallas in 2009. It gives the figure as about 24 feet tall and 16 tons.
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An outdoor gilded statue at the south end of the AT&T Discovery District plaza in downtown Dallas. AT&T's Discovery District website describes it as a beacon welcoming visitors from the convention center; Visit Dallas includes it on a downtown walking route.
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At the south end of the AT&T Discovery District plaza in downtown Dallas, near Wood Street and South Akard, outdoors, according to Athenaeum Review in 2022 and AT&T's Discovery District website.
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