To: Bob Buckhorn, Mayor
Mayor Buckhorn: Save the Historic Jackson Rooming House
Do not demolish the Historic Jackson Rooming House.This former boarding house has it's place in history of great importance to the African American community. The city has waited this long, please allow Bubba and volunteers time to save this National treasure.
Why is this important?
The Historic Jackson Rooming house is a former boarding house in Tampa centered on Central Avenue. The Jackson house was the only house in the area where African Americans travelers like Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, and James Brown could find accommodations when segregation was in force in the south. Now the city has added thousands of dollars of fines and a short window to fix the building or they will demolish a historic site that was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic places in 2007. There is no rush to destroy history please allow volunteers ample time to get this house up to code.