ON DISPLAY AT THE ART DECO MUSEUM, STEVE WRIGHT'S PHOTOS SHOWCASE LITTLE HAVANA'S BEAUTY AND WONDER HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
Writer and photographer Steve Wright's enthusiasm for preserving Little Havana's historic buildings was cemented while rehabbing his own 1922 Spanish mission-style home with its wall of huge bay windows in Shenandoah, a particularly storied area of Little Havana stretching from Calle Ocho to Coral Way between Southwest 12th and 27th Avenues.
Wright says
though the neighborhood doesn't remind him much of his native Ohio, it
instantly felt like home.
"I'm five blocks south of Calle Ocho.
I'm almost
walking distance from the edge of downtown Coral Gables and biking distance
from Coconut Grove and Brickell.
When I moved
here, I just thought, What a great base of operations in an area with such
character," Wright recalls.
"One of
my neighbors is a big Santería practitioner, so that was my zero-to-60
Midwestern-boy introduction into Miami."
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