"Gosh, they haven't gotten rid of that firetrap yet?"
Those are just a few of the choice words residents had about the abandoned Puckett Place apartments, left as comments on a recent Facebook post of photos taken by Ian Watson. A local artist whose paintings are reminiscent of Rothko, Watson has a keen eye for the staggering and derelict beauty that is carried by abandoned places, which is clearly evident in the photos I browsed through.
As I clicked through each photo of the time-worn apartment complex, I could almost hear the echoes of years past reverberating through the screen. Even through the debris and disrepair, I could tell that Puckett Place, located at 3447 Amherst Drive, had once been a lovely place. So what happened? How did this building, situated in one of the most affluent parts of town, end up so ravaged by time?