Behind Jackson Street. . .well, there is no behind Jackson Street except for a sort of mall for the poor and lonely. It is a cut-through area, used by anybody and everybody who is temperamentally averse to walking in a straight line. The houses are gone today and will, as I hear, be replaced by "infill." They were built by working-class people who needed to be near downtown, where they worked in shops and factories. They were plain-fronted, late Federal Era things turned Victorian at the corners. Over time, all of the grace-notes (an iron gate, box hedges, brick-inlaid paths) had disappeared, leaving these husks, which loomed somewhat majestically over passers-by. (Or the occasional person who found himself stranded among them, for one reason or another.)