Prince, burned the historic Hotel Oloffson to the ground over the weekend amid a clash with police in the neighborhood. The hotel had been a gathering place for generations and a center for art and music.

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 gangs.

Haiti’s famed Oloffson Hotel, a cultural landmark and celebrity haven, was incinerated amid rising violence by gangs that control most of the country’s capital.