hotel oloffson
"Grand Old Victorian House Built As a Presidential Summer Palace, Occupied by Us Marines As a Hospital, and Eventually the First Hotel in Haiti. Large Tropical Gardens and the Ocean Provide Views from Wide Cool Verandas. The Bar is Famous For the Literary and Theatrical Greats That Have Lounged Here."

"Or they (New Yorkers) bunk downtown in the shadowy bohemian interiors of the Hotel Oloffson, made famous by Graham Greene in The Comedians and by The New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams, who modeled his trademark haunted houses on the Oloffson's tropo-Gothic gingerbread façade. For my money, the Oloffson's veranda is the supreme hangout in Haiti, the prime venue to eavesdrop on incomprehensible intrigues, slam rum sours with disoriented celebrities, or hunker down when there's gunplay a few blocks over at the National Palace. " -- Bob Shacochis

graham greene would still adore this hotel

karl grobl fotos of oloffson

richard morse and RAM