American Ghost Adventures
American Ghost Adventures
Ever felt you were being watched? With American Ghost Adventures, this is not just another walk in the dark. Join us on an interactive ghost tour where you will be entwined with unsolved mysteries, scandalous tales and ghost sightings with your own eyes. A tour that will send chills down your spine as you investigate a real haunted building with EMF detectors and become an amateur ghost hunter.
Late 19th and early 20th century Cuban immigration to the United States was impressive for the craft talents brought to the country. Along with their Spanish counterparts, skilled Cuban cigar makers made Tampa's hand-rolled cigars world famous. As early as 1899 Cuban immigrants formed recreational societies with varying degrees of success, and in 1902, Cuban workers founded El Circulo Cubano as a mutual aid society to bind all Cuban residents of Tampa into a fraternal group, to offer assistance and help to the sick. When fire destroyed the first clubhouse in 1916, members immediately initiated plans for its replacement. The present four-story, yellow brick building with Neo-Classical design elements sits on the original site at 14th Street and 10th Avenue. Constructed in 1917, the building contained a theater, pharmacy, library, ballroom, and cantina. Imported tile, stained glass windows and elaborately carved scraffito spandrels decorated the structure. The ballroom ceiling displayed elaborate murals. The clubhouse provided an elegant gathering place for members and served as a unifying force in the Cuban community. The National Register of Historic Places listed El Circulo Cubano in 1972.
The Cuban Club!
September 24th, 2011 9:00 pm until 1:00 am
For more tour information and times, please visit our website at http://www.americanghostadventures.com/. You may also contact us at 407.325.1666 American Ghost Adventures, where the paranormal is normal.