Tampa-based architect M. Leo Elliott designed the Centro Asturiano de Tampa at 1913 Nebraska Avenue, honored on July 24, 1974 with placement on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. This is the social heart that served immigrants and descendants from Asturias, Spain — a Centro that once bundled social life with concrete care. Historically, membership meant a hospital, a cemetery, and health insurance; the stated purpose was to take care of members from before birth until after they died.
Over time those practical services changed: membership declined after the hospital closed in 1990, and that hospital building was renovated in 2005 to provide affordable housing for seniors. The social spirit survives, and the cemetery remains as a quiet ledger of lives bound here. The Centro you see is one among many Centros Asturianos that span Spain, the United States, and the world — part of a larger network born in waves of migration, when, in the late 1880s, many men traveled from Spain to the Americas, often to Havana, Cuba, before settling.
The building at 1913 Nebraska Avenue, the cemetery that still connects generations, and the former hospital renovated in 2005 all wait for you.