Eiffel Tower (Paris, Tennessee)

Paris, Tennessee, United States

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A 60-foot, one-twentieth-scale Eiffel Tower replica stands in Eiffel Tower Park, Paris, Tennessee. Christian Brothers University engineering staff built it in wood in 1990; it was moved to Paris, dedicated in 1993 and later rebuilt in steel.

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Eiffel Tower (Paris, Tennessee)

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Site-level location · 36.2870° N, 88.3056° W

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The story

Paris, Tennessee, has its own Eiffel Tower: a 60-foot replica at one-twentieth scale in Eiffel Tower Park, which the City of Paris describes as a year-round landmark.

It began in Memphis. For the 1990 Memphis in May festival, whose theme that year was France, Christian Brothers University's engineering department built a near-exact scale model from 500 pieces of Douglas fir and 6,000 steel rods, using more than 10,000 hours donated by students, alumni, faculty and supporters. The Paris Post-Intelligencer reported in 2005 that students kept climbing it even though it could not bear their weight, so the university looked for a new home.

The Paris-Henry County Chamber of Commerce had hosted "Paris U.S.A." in April 1991, inviting towns named Paris. Afterwards a university official offered the tower, and the city commission voted to accept it. According to the Chamber, city public works employees trucked the dismantled tower to Paris in February 1992, reassembled it in Memorial Park inside a circular brick wall, and it was dedicated on 29 January 1993. The Chamber says a plaque in the wall reads "TOWER DONATED BY CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY MEMPHIS, TN 1992".

The tower stayed wooden until 2002, when the Post-Intelligencer says it was effectively rebuilt in steel; the city now describes a 60-foot steel tower. Memorial Park has since been renamed Eiffel Tower Park.

A former chamber official told the paper that tourism staff used to call it "the second tallest Eiffel Tower in a Paris". In 2024 WSMV described it as what is considered the world's 12th tallest Eiffel Tower replica.

The park around it has, according to the city, a splash pad, playgrounds, a three-quarter-mile walking track, a trout pond, a swimming pool, sand volleyball, soccer, tennis and pickleball areas and an 18-hole disc golf course.

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The tower stands in a city park that the City of Paris lists with a splash pad, playgrounds, a three-quarter-mile walking track, a trout pond, swimming pool, tennis and pickleball courts and a disc golf course. The city calls the tower a favourite photo stop.

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Eiffel Tower Park, 1020 Maurice Fields Drive, Paris, Tennessee, a city park. The City of Paris describes the tower as a year-round landmark.

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