Jackson Rooming House, Boarding house in Tampa, United States

The Jackson Rooming House is a two-story wooden building with 24 rooms located near Tampa's former Union Station train depot on Zack Street. The structure displays typical early 1900s residential architecture with functional interior spaces designed to accommodate many guests.

Moses and Sarah Jackson established this lodging in 1901 to serve Black travelers when racial segregation shut them out of most accommodations. The building remained an important stop for Black visitors throughout the 20th century in a segregated city.

The house served as a gathering place for Black musicians and leaders visiting Tampa when segregation prevented them from staying elsewhere. It represents how Black communities created their own spaces when doors were closed to them everywhere else.

The house at 851 Zack Street stands about a block west of Tampa Union Station, at the north end of downtown. It is not open as a museum: restoration has stalled over a needed 10-foot fire-code easement from the neighbouring parking lot at 717 Parking, a land swap the city council approved in October 2023 but which remained unsettled in February 2024. View it from the street.

The house stayed in business until 1989, run by the Jacksons' children after Moses and Sarah Jackson built it as a six-room cottage in 1901; it remains in the possession of one of their grandchildren. By 2007 it was believed to be the last free-standing residential dwelling in downtown Tampa.