--- title: Barack Obama in Cuba: See Historical Cuba Photos description: The only other sitting U.S. President to visit Cuba was Calvin Coolidge canonical: https://time.com/4264563/1920s-cuba-presidential-visit/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-21T16:00:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:04.339Z article:section: History og:title: Barack Obama in Cuba: See Historical Cuba Photos og:description: The only other sitting U.S. President to visit Cuba was Calvin Coolidge og:url: https://time.com/4264563/1920s-cuba-presidential-visit/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43a354b922210043/69888ba45f570f76f9b201c3/160318-1920s-cuba-12.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: 1920s Cuba og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Barack Obama in Cuba: See Historical Cuba Photos twitter:description: The only other sitting U.S. President to visit Cuba was Calvin Coolidge twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43a354b922210043/69888ba45f570f76f9b201c3/160318-1920s-cuba-12.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # What Cuba Looked Like the Last Time a President Visited > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) Mar 21, 2016 4:00 PM UTC  A view of Central Park in Havana, Cuba. 1928. A view of Central Park in Havana, Cuba. 1928. Bettman—Corbis by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) Mar 21, 2016 4:00 PM UTC President Barack Obama’s[ official visit ](http://time.com/4228623/president-obama-cuba-trip/)to Cuba this week is the first such trip in nearly 90 years. The last–and only–time a sitting U.S. President visited Cuba was Calvin Coolidge in 1928:  U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, second from left, and his wife, first lady Grace Coolidge, third from left, are shown with the President of Cuba General Gerardo Machado y Morales, right, and his wife, Elvira Machado, left, on the estate of President Machado in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 19, 1928. AP Photo The Cuba Obama’s visiting has a reputation as a place frozen in time, but that’s [not really true](http://time.com/3639959/cuba-pico-iyer-story/). Just look at these images from Cuba in the 1920s. _Read more about Coolidge’s visit here:_ [The Only Other Time a Sitting President Visited Cuba](http://time.com/4228874/obama-coolidge-cuba/)  Cuban girls banding the Havana cigar, after which they are boxed. Havana, Cuba, 1920. Bettman—Corbis  Panorama showing train loaded with sugar leaving for N.Y., sugar mill, administration buildings and sugar cane plantation. Guantanamo, Cuba, 1920. Bettman—Corbis  A cigar-factory employee with a large Havana Cigar. 1920. Bettman—Corbis  Miss Lillian Molton, daughter of Cuba's tobacco king and judged the most beautiful girl in Havana, 1922. Bettman—Corbis  Portrait of a typical Cuban peasant family. Cuba, 1921. Bettman—Corbis  The U.S. military camping at Deer Point in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 1923. Bettman—Corbis  A peddler's cart in Havana, Cuba, 1925. Bettman—Corbis  Hordes of people and motor cars crowd the waterfront as the Cunard liner Mauretania pulls into Havana, Cuba. 1925. General Photographic Agency—Getty Images  Havana, Cuba, 1926. Print Collector—Getty Images  U.S. Fleet in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 1927. Bettmann—Corbis  A Spanish Baroque-style church with the columns of an arcade in the foreground in Havana, Cuba. 1928. Bettman—Corbis  A view of Central Park in Havana, Cuba. 1928. Bettman—Corbis  View of the veranda of the clubhouse at Oriental Park, Havana, during the December Holiday season. 1929. Bettman—Corbis  The bathing beach in Havana, Cuba, 1929. Underwood Archives—Getty Images  The Presidential Palace in Havana, Cuba, 1929. 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