{"id":63136,"date":"2021-01-11T21:22:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soulofamerica.com\/?page_id=63136"},"modified":"2021-01-12T19:16:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T03:16:31","slug":"tampa-heritage-sites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.soulofamerica.com\/us-cities\/tampa\/tampa-heritage-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Heritage Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"
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St. Peter Claver Church, Tampa<\/strong>; (c) Soul Of America<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tampa Heritage Sites<\/h2>\n
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Ybor City<\/strong>
\nDESCRIPTION: Step back in time in a Latin Quarter once called “The Cigar Capital of the World,” where 12,000 master tabaqueros once hand-rolled 700 million cigars a year; the cigar industry created a cultural collage where Spaniards, Italians, Jews, Germans, African Americans, Afro-Cubans and Spanish Cubans worked and socialized together prior to laws in 1904; many of the Ybor City social clubs still stand; the buildings were elegant testaments to the prosperity of the era with brick and stone edifices, marble columns, wrought iron balconies and grand stairways; today Ybor City attracts artists-in-residence, creating Bohemian atmosphere in this National Historic Landmark District.
\nADDRESS: bounded by Nuccio Parkway, I-4 Freeway, North 26th Street and Adamo Drive MAP
\nWEBSITE: https:\/\/yborcityonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n

La Union Marti-Maceo Building<\/strong>
\nDESCRIPTION: A modest white stucco building first opened to serve Afro-Cubans who were excluded from Cuban mutual aid societies when a Florida law passed in 1904; Cut off from the Spanish Cubans by state law and local customs Afro-Cubans formed La Union Marti-Maceo and built a two-story clubhouse with a theatre, dance hall, meeting rooms and steel-girded porch in 1908. In 1965 the Afro-Cuban club was demolished in the misguided name of Urban Renewal, but in the 1980s the club was relocated to a warehouse on 7th Ave and 14th Street in Ybor City National Historic District.
\nADDRESS: 1226 East 7th Ave MAP
\nWEBSITE: http:\/\/ybor.org\/sociedad-la-union-marti-maceo\/<\/a><\/p>\n

St. Peter Claver School<\/strong>
\nDESCRIPTION: Opened 1894 as a school for Black children. It is the oldest still functioning school of its type in the region.
\nADDRESS: 1401 Governor Street MAP
\nPHONE: 813-224-0865
\nWEBSITE: https:\/\/www.stpeterclavercatholicschool.org<\/a><\/p>\n

St. Paul AME Church<\/strong>
\nDESCRIPTION: Built between 1906 and 1917; civil rights leaders met here in the 1950s and 60s to organize marches, sit-ins and freedom rides; still a vibrant force for good in the community.
\nSUNDAY WORSHIP: 10:30a
\nADDRESS: 506 East Harrison Street, Tampa, FL MAP
\nPHONE: 813-223-9753
\nWEBSITE: link<\/p>\n