There is a house I admire – a big old house, built in 1890 – at the northwest corner of Jerome and Marshall Streets. It faces Jerome, and on the Marshall side there are some now-useless steps that the residents have decorated with a couple of nice planter boxes.

Presumably the steps were intended to allow residents to go from the side entrance of the house down to Marshall Street. While the flowers are nice, it strikes me as a shame to block access to the sidewalk from this side. I wonder when the fence was put in and who was the last person to walk up or down the steps.