Throughout the political unrest that has long gripped Haiti, one of the few islands of relative calm was the Hotel Oloffson, ...

The Hotel Oloffson in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, long a haven for artists and writers, poets and presidents, a symbol of Haiti's troubled politics and its storied past, has been destroyed by ...

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.

The famous Hotel Oloffson hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti is pictured Jan. 20, 2000. The latest in the Oloffson's long line of operators is Richard Morse, the son of an American scholar and a ...

Main entry to the Hotel Oloffson, built as a private residence by Simon Sam in about 1886. American Marines leased it and turned it into a military hospital from 1915 34. In 1936 Walter Oloffson ...