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1912-08-08

Salomon’s National Palace blown up

Haitian

PUBLIC BUILDINGS. The National Palace, built in 1772, was burned on 20 December 1869, at the entry of the Cacos into Port-au-Prince. It was a fine building, placed to the E. of the place Pétion. Salnave was shot on 15 January 1870 on its still smoking ruins, tied to a red post. The national palace built by President Salomon in 1882 blew up on 8 August 1912. Architect Léon Loforestrie. The present palace in reinforced concrete was built by Georges Baussan in 1918.

Rouzier tells this under the entry PORT-AU PRINCE [le].

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 464 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 464