Hacienda Gripiñas was established as a 1,700 cuerdas hacienda in 1858 by Eusebio Perez Castillo (1826-1899) and his wife Monserrate Rivera Rivera ( -1900), also owners of the nearby Hacienda Santa Barbara later Central Santa Barbara.  

Jaime Oliver Mayol (1844- ) was a Spanish immigrant from Mallorca who arrived in Puerto Ricco in 1864.  In 1900, after Eusebio and his wife's death, he and his wife Caracas, Venezuela born Manuela Cuvelgé Conde (1859 - ) acquired the then 1,400 acre hacienda.  Coffee produced at Hacienda Gripiñas under the administration of Jaime won the Gold Medal in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition also known as the St. Louis World Fair.

Otto Edward August Frederick Wantzelius Lindennan (1872- ) was born in Saint Thomas Danish West Indies to German parents.  He arrived in Puerto Rico in 1894 from Hamburg Germany with his wife Helene Hub and established himself in Ponce.  In 1905 Wantzelius partnered with Jaime Oliver Mayol and established the firm Wantzelius, Oliver & Co. located in the Ponce Playa.  The firm was the local representative of Marcus, Mason & Co. manufacturers of agricultural machinery and were also coffee exporters until the firm's dissolution in the 1920's.

Jaime Oliver and Manuela Cuvelgé had four children, Francisco (1878- ), Margarita (1883-1968), Manuela (1890- ) and  Antonia (1895- ) Oliver Cuvelgé.  Margarita married Spanish immigrant from Mallorca Pedro Sastre Oliver (1874-1910) of which marriage one son was born named Miguel Angel Sastre Oliver (1907-1973).  Miguel Angel inherited the hacienda and developed it into a 1,000+ acre farm cultivating coffee and other products.  In 1970 shortly before his death, the majority of the land and the structures were acquired by the Government of Puerto Rico who segregated most of the land and distributed small parcels to local people.

The manor house was remodeled and expanded to a hotel known as Parador Hacienda Gripiñas under the auspices of the Government program "Paradores de Puerto Rico".  The manor house location on a hillside overlooking the the processing establishments was not typical of coffee plantations.  Ususally the manor house was integrated into the coffee processing complex.