A view of the Iron House designed by Gustave Eiffel taken from the Plaza de Armas in Iquitos, Peru. Rubber baron Anselmo del Aguila bought it at the International Exposition in Paris in 1889. Once dismantled, it was transported in pieces via the Amazon to Iquitos and assembled there in 1890 at the height of the rubber boom.
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A view of the Iron House designed by Gustave Eiffel taken from the Plaza de Armas in Iquitos, Peru. Rubber baron Anselmo del Aguila bought it at the International Exposition in Paris in 1889. Once dismantled, it was transported in pieces via the Amazon to Iquitos and assembled there in 1890 at the height of the rubber boom.