The address on this Burgert photo is incorrect. The Sicilia Club was founded in West Tampa in 1914 with 95 members. Antonio Italiano was president, with a membership of 500 Italian residents, by 1929 when it moved to this location on Howard Avenue from its former home at 2112 Main Street. Built at the cost of $65,000, the first floor had a café and club offices along with a theater seating 800 persons. Leon S. Cazin responded to an advertisement from the Sicilia Club in 1929 that offered to rent the theater to the highest bidder. He opened his original Cazin Theater at Howard and Main Streets after remodeling the former 400-seat Royal Theater in 1926. He moved here in 1931 to open the Cazin Sicilia Theater of West Tampa on the Fourth of July. Cazin was active in the Latin American community and was once the chairman of the El Carnaval De Los Latinos (The Latin Carnival).

Cazin’s theater was open until 1934, when the Sicilia club folded and its members joined their sister club L’Unione Italiana in Ybor City. In 1947, the Westown Theater opened in the fully renovated building here and ran until 1956, when the place went quiet again. In 1999, businesswoman Linda Wilcox attempted to open a restaurant and theater reception hall in the shuttered building but was rebuked and denied by local residents and City Council in her liquor license quest. Giving up, the building continued to deteriorate. In 2021 the North Carolina-based Black Horse Studio bought the structure for $1.2 million with plans to spend close to $2 million to transform it into a commercial production studio.