Haiti's Gingerbread Houses

Rich History
A painting in the lobby of the Hotel Oloffson, one of the earliest examples of gingerbread architecture. Gingerbreads were "not colonial architecture" says Stephen Kelley, an architect sent by the World Monuments Fund to inspect the Haitian buildings. "They're physical embodiments of the lives of the Haitian people."

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