According to this 1900 Census Form, the Bustillo-Bengocher brothers Antonio (1860- ), Valentin (1862- ), Adrian (1865- ) and Moises (1879-1943) were Spanish immigrants who arrived in the US in 1896.   Armando Mendez in his book Ciudad de Cigars: West Tampa states that in Cuba the Bustillo brothers held management positions at La Comercial factory before purchasing the the Flor de V. Suarez Cigar Co. He states that Bustillo Bros. was started in Tampa by Valentin Bustillo and Felipe Bustillo when they accepted an offer from from the West Tampa Land Development and Improving Co. to relocate from Havana. After accepting the offer to relocate, they started with great success, initially employing one hundred twenty workers brought from Cuba.  In 1897 the company changed its name to Bustillo Bros. & Diaz Co. when their friend from Havana José M. Diaz became a partner.  At that time, Valentin was in charge of the West Tampa factory, Felipe, who remained in Cuba and was thus not in the census data above, managed the Havana Branch and all tobacco purchases and Diaz handled sales from their NY office.

Mendez also states in his book that Bustillo Bros. first factory building in West Tampa was located at 152-154 13th Ave., which facility they soon outgrew.  In 1900 they opened a second factory on 10th Ave. under the name Bengocher, Alvarez & Co. at the site formerly occupied by Mark A. Brunner & Co.   By 1902 Bustillo Bros. & Diaz Co. employed over five hundred workers at their two factories at 152-154 13th Ave. and 10th Ave. and needed additional space.  According to an article in the March 21, 1902 edition of Tobacco publication, by April 1902 they expected to move to this brand new factory building on the corner of Albany Ave. & Pine St. where they could accommodate up to six hundred workers making them one of the largest cigar manufacturing operations in West Tampa, famous world wide for their Henry the Fourth Cigars.   The March 28, 1902 edition of the Tobacco publication states that after they move out of the 10th Ave. location, that facility will be occupied by a branch of Fernandez Hnos. & Co. of New York, makers of El Fastidio and Independiente brands.

Valentin Bustillo retired in 1906 and returned to live in Spain, in 1909 Moises Bustillo joined the firm as factory manager.  In the midst of the labor strike of 1910 which lasted from July 1910 until January 1911, on September 20, 1910 J. Frank Esterling, an accountant for the Bustillo Bro. & Diaz Cigar Co. was shot and killed. The issues surrounding the strike and the lynching are illustrated in the articles City in Turmoil: Tampa and the Strike of 1910 by Joe Scaglione and Tampa's 1910 Lynching: The Italian-American Perspective and Its Implications by Stefano Luconi.

In January 1915, Preferred Havana Cigar Co. of Ybor City moved its offices here when it purchased several local factories including Bustillo Bros. & Diaz Co., Lopez Hnos. Co., P. Verplanck & Co. and the Calixto Lopez  & Co. of Havana. In March 1915 the the Bustillo and Verplankck factories were consolidated under Bustillo Bros. & Diaz Co. After the acquisition by Preferred Havana Cigar Co., ​Moises Bustillo left the company and on December 1915 with brother Felipe formed M. Bustillo & Co. at the old Morgan factory at Howard Ave. & St. Louis St.  In 1919, M. Bustillo & Co. moved to the old Sanchez & Haya Co. factory  at 7th Ave. & 15 th St. in Ybor City where they stayed until it was demolished in 1922.  

In 1922 Moises Bustillo formed a partnership with Jack Merriam and the company was renamed M. Bustillo & Merriam Co. established at 17th Ave. & 16th St. in Ybor City.  They moved twice thereafter, once to 2311 18th St. which had been vacated by Marcelino Perez Co. and a second time in 1929 to the F. Lozano, Son & Co. building.  M. Bustillo & Merriam Co. closed for good shortly after Moises' death in 1943. In 1953 Bustillo Bros. & Diaz Co. was acquired by Villazon & Co. and ceased to operate.  

Until the 1960s this 33,334 sq. ft. building at 2111N Albany Ave. had other tenants and was an operational cigar factory.  For years this factory building was used as office space, as can be vaguely seen from the inscription on the fascia, it was at one time occupied by what appears to be a former City of Tampa agency called the Tampa Inner City Managing Center.  On October 8, 2021 its owner at the time James A. George and Gregory S. George individually and as trustees of the James A. George Trust ,sold this property for a reported $2,800,000 to the West Tampa Development Group, LLC who is its current owner. The Tampa Bay Times reported on October 3, 2023 that the building is being converted into student housing and renamed Cigar Lofts at Albany. As of November 2025 as can be seen in. the pictures below, work has been done but not yet finished.