Eiffel Tower

A huge icon of France is located right in my hometown of Paris. It is the Eiffel Tower. Everybody knows what it is but they don't know anything about it so I'm going to talk about it today. First off, the architecture for the building was created by Alexandre Gustav Eiffel. He almost didn't get to build it because the Exposition Committee would only grant a fourth of the money he needed so he had to fund his own money. He independently had to find funders for his tower but he agreed that he would have them pay for the tower and he would have control of the towers income for the first twenty years. The tower payed off in the first year alone and Eiffel profited for the next 19 years and became very rich. Other problems occured before he could build it. Many architects and artists got mad because they believed that a tower made of entirely iron would be ugly and a disgrace to Paris.They even compared it to a gigantic black factory smokestack. After it was built people thought it was just a naked structure of iron and needed 'skin' like the Statue of Liberty had on its iron frame. However, this never happenned because most people thought it was an architectural milestone because of how its all iron structure showed so much beauty.