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The fire that destroyed the historic cultural landmark on July 5 has caused great sadness and anger, emphasizing the extent ...
Haiti’s famed Oloffson Hotel, a cultural landmark and celebrity haven, was incinerated amid rising violence by gangs that ...
An interactive timeline tracing Hotel Oloffson’s journey from mansion to cultural hub to its tragic end amid gang violence.
The hotel’s burning was confirmed to the Miami Herald by proprietor Richard A. Morse, who also announced the destruction on X ...
In the late 1980s, Richard Morse became the hotel’s manager. His band, RAM, played Haitian roots music on Thursday nights ...
Haiti.- The Haitian government has condemned the destruction of the iconic Hotel Oloffson as an “intolerable act” after armed ...
Prince, long a haven for artists and writers, poets and presidents, a symbol of Haiti's troubled politics and its storied ...
No more dancing, no more dining, no more nights at the Oloffson. Gone are the meetups, the dates, the rum sours, the RAM ...
Building visited by creatives and politicians from around the world set alight by gangs as unrest grips country ...
The Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince has nurtured generations of Haitian artists and exhibited the country’s most important ...
Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler return to the historic significance of Hotel Oloffson and the meaning behind its destruction.
The Oloffson served as a presidential summer palace in the early 1900s and then became a U.S. Marine Corps Hospital before a Swedish sea captain converted it into a hotel in the 1930s.