{"id":358940,"date":"2026-07-31T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358940\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:32:09","slug":"historic-cuban-club-restoration-aims-to-preserve-ybor-landmark-for-another-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358940\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Cuban Club Restoration Aims To Preserve Ybor Landmark For &#8216;Another 100 Years&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And this work can be costly \u2014 even seemingly minor details can cost tens of thousands of dollars. But it\u2019s necessary work, according to Manteiga.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"24559556-1785508324\" data-image=\"24559556-1785508324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Cuban 3.jpg\" data- \/>Ongoing restoration work at Ybor City&#8217;s Cuban Club includes custom-fabrication pieces of historic details. (Tiffany Razzano\/Patch) <\/p>\n<p>Preserving the Cuban Club goes beyond saving an old building, as the structure tells a uniquely American immigration story, he said. <\/p>\n<p>Unlike many immigrant communities elsewhere in the country, Tampa&#8217;s Cuban immigrants included not only factory workers but cigar manufacturers, business owners and bankers who helped shape the city&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>The Cuban Club served as far more than a gathering place for these immigrants. As a mutual aid society, members had access to healthcare, cultural programs, theater productions, sports leagues and social activities under one membership. <\/p>\n<p>Manteiga believes organizations like the Cuban Club were among the country&#8217;s earliest examples of prepaid healthcare systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And this work can be costly \u2014 even seemingly minor details can cost tens of thousands of dollars.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-358940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}