The April sun casts its afternoon light on this mournful masterpiece on Detroit's westside.  One of the many palatial apartment buildings that now sit abandoned and decaying, the Moorish influenced Laredo Apartments is symbolic of the vanishing architectural beauties that were homes to thousands of Detroiters across the decades. 

Come, travel with me and bid a final farewell to these once glorious and prestigious residences.


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