Andrés Diaz (1850- ) was a Spanish immigrant from Oviedo, Asturias who learned the cigar trade in Cuba before coming to the US.  In 1883 he established Andrés Diaz & Co. in New York City with a partner from Barcelona, Catalonia of last name Gonzalez.  Later on, his brother Ceferino Diaz, Jim Burns, José Maceda and J. M. Cuyar became partnes with Andrés in the business.

This 18,304 sq. ft. cigar factory building at 3102 N. Habana Ave. was designed at the specifications of the Andrés Diaz & Co. and built by John Drew, co-developer of West Tampa along with Hugh C. Macfarlane.  Construction was completed on May 15, 1908 and that same month Andrés Diaz & Co. relocated from New York City and started producing here its brands Terreno, La Flor de Andrés Diaz and La Flor de Scott.  At its peak during the seventeen years they remained at this location, the factory employed some two hundred workers.  Andrés Diaz & Co. closed it's business in 1925. 

After 1925, the building was reportedly sold to Francisco Arango (1864-1943) who leased it to a number of other factories including the Tampa-Cuba Cigar Co. between 1936 and 1943.  After that, it was sold to Hoffman Inc., a company dealing in rubber goods.  During the 1960s, it was purchased by the Amevoit Co.  It was vacant from 1976 to ca. 1980, and was then bought by Ad-Image, Inc. who converted it to an office building.  On February 4, 1980 Ad-Image, Inc. represented by John W. Stokes Jr., sold the property to Andrés Diaz Corp.  On September 4, 1991 title was transfered to Bay Financial Savings Bank as the result of foreclosure action brought against Andrés Diaz Corp. and John W. Stokes Jr.  

On September 29, 1995 Bay Financial Savings Bank sold the building to the Stahl Family Trust who sold it on October 19, 2001 to the Church of Scientology of Tampa, Inc.  who occupied it until 2012 when they moved to the V. Martinez Ybor fatory building in Ybor City.  On November 2012, the Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association through the HCTA Professional Learning Center, Inc. acquired the building and is its current tenant. 

In 1998, the Tampa Historical Society and West Tampa Centennial Society named the building an architectural landmark.