This facade was around the corner from the neighborhood bar I’d go to when I was too lazy to cook. Being lazy paid off this night. I didn’t give much thought to the facade as I walked past it and around the corner to the bar. But leaving the bar — that’s when I saw this. This is cool. At 10 p.m. in this light, it was the kind of view we rarely get to see of a building. This was the entire preservation effort; there’s now a three-story modern building behind it, mostly hidden, as if everyone knew this original facade was really what everyone wanted to see anyway. This was one of those moments I felt like I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time.

April 4, 2018. Samsung Galaxy S8+ cell phone, focal length 4.25mm (35mm equivalent: 26mm), f/1.7, 1/10, ISO 1,600.