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Located directly across the street from J.C. Newman Cigar Co., one of Ybor City’s last remaining original cigar factories, the two-story Sanchez y Haya Hotel was built in 1910. That makes it one of the oldest commercial buildings not just in Tampa, but all of Florida. It originally opened as a small hotel for cigar factory workers, with an on-site coffee shop and restaurant. But it became a target of federal agents during the Prohibition area, when owner Maximo Gonzalez and several co-conspirators were arrested for their role in an illegal alcohol smuggling operation.