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Place

Jack Smith Armchair Statue

Place · Downtown

Downtown
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About

About 100 yards inside the Oakland Cemetery entrance, a life-size granite statue of a bald man with a bushy mustache sits in an armchair, holding his top hat, casually staring at the cemetery gates for eternity. One of the most distinctive funerary sculptures in the American Southeast.

Getting There & Around

100 Centennial Olympic Park Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30313, USA · Downtown, GAFive Points · 7 min walk
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  • Hansel & Gretel Bakery Caferestaurant · Downtown0.3 mi
  • STATS Brewpubsports bar · Downtown0.4 mi
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