I started over to refresh and follow the tutorial step-by-step. I entered "control T." First, I rotated it slightly so that the horizontal brickwork was, in fact, horizontal:"
When I line up a building line, the one below the main subject's head: the lines higher on the building; the "horizon" at the spectators' feet; and the curb close to me are not straight.
OR, best to refer to your second example photo (I will try this now):
For the sake of the exercise, I used the Perspective and Skew functions to do this: