Ybor Square and El Pasaje Hotel, 14th Street, Tampa, Florida

Creator

Sape A. Zylstra

Files

Preview

Creation Date

January 1980

Time Period

circa 1980s-1990s

Abstract

Ybor Square was originally a cigar factory. It, along with the once-sumptuous El Pasaje Hotel, was built at the behest of V.M. Ybor, who began the manufacture of cigars in Tampa in 1885, after having done so in Havana in 1852 and Key West in 1869. The scale and fenestration makes the factory similar to the mills of the Northeast, but the roof is flat and instead of the full-length clearstory of the mills, the factory has a glassed rooftop vent-box. The hotel, with its ground-level open arcade, has something of the Italian Renaissance palazzo. It was originally known as the Cherokee Club, a businessman's club. It lodged Army officers during the Spanish-American War and politicians on campaign swings through Tampa, among them William Jennings Bryan. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Keywords

Factories, Cigar industry, Hotels, Vicente Martinez Ybor (1818-1896)

Extent

1 color slide

Geographic Location

Hillsborough County (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.); Ybor City (Tampa, Fla.)

Physical Collection

Sape A. Zylstra Collection of Tampa Architectural Slides

Box

1

Media Type

Color slides

Note

Title supplied by cataloger. Description supplied by Sape A. Zylstra.

Identifier

Z03-A005

Recommended Citation

Zylstra, Sape A., "Ybor Square and El Pasaje Hotel, 14th Street, Tampa, Florida" (1980). Sape A. Zylstra Collection of Tampa Photographs. Image 5.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/zylstra/5