#Oloffson
Haiti's Hotel Oloffson, a global icon visited by world leaders and mentioned throughout literature, has burned to the ground. The legendary gingerbread building featured Haitian art and hosted people from Mick Jagger to Jackie Onassis. bit.ly/3GozNJR #oloffson #haiti
First reports are that it was Jimmy Chérizier's criminal gang that just burned down the legendary #Oloffson Hotel. Are the foreign reporters who boosted him in interviews ashamed yet?
it's like the "gangs" (and their sponsors) are trying to destroy any piece of national heritage the earthquake spared
#haiti #oloffson
tremendous loss of culture and history. A hidden jewel in the surrounding chaos.
Some of my favorite memories were here.
Survived the 2010 earthquake unscathed—wooden architecture bowed when everything around it crumbled.
#oloffson #oloffsonfire
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Quand Arcade Fire a joué à l’Oloffson en 2011 et que La Presse m’a demandé un reportage. #oloffson #msonjew
The iconic #Oloffson Hotel of Graham Greene fame, was burned down at the weekend. A great loss of Haitian 'gingerbread' architecture. Like other journalists, I spent many nights there in the past. Greene set some famous scenes there in his novel, 'The Comedians'.