Anatomy of a Cigar Factory

(cigarsoftampa.com) During the big days of the cigar industry in Tampa, a series of factory buildings were constructed in both sides of the Hillsborough River, to provided the proper environment for the hand made cigar manufacturing. Today those buildings are consider a thing of the past and are only part of the landscape in a new city, as silent witnesses of an era. What not many people know is that they were a good example of the building construction at the end of 1800's, and that they were engineering marvels... Continued

Image: Ybor Cigar Factory, 1916 North Fourteenth Street, Tampa (Library of Congress).