Hotel Oloffson
Turgeau, Haiti · built 1935
The Hotel Oloffson was a hotel in central Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Originally a private mansion in the late 19th century, it was later made into a hotel; during its heyday it was known as the "Greenwich Village of the Tropics", hosting celebrity actors, writers, and artists, including Ernest Hemingway and Mick Jagger. The architecture was late-19th century tropical gingerbread house, a French-origin tropical mansion design. The hotel was the real-life inspiration for the hotel in Graham Greene's 1966 novel The Comedians. On 6 July 2025, during a prolonged period of intense lawlessness and gang violence in Haiti, the hotel was incinerated by unknown assailants in an arson attack.
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