 He accommodated a motley collection of tenants, mostly young gay men, in an eight-unit building at 75 Phillips St; Prescott himself inhabited an old brick townhouse at the end of Lindall Pl, a cul-de-sac that terminated just behind the Philips Street apartments.A subterranean corridor lined with cubicles connected the basements of the two buildings.The tunnel was said to have housed runaway slaves in transit on the Underground Railway prior to the Civil War.